Cisco Router OSPF: Design & Implementaton Guide

Here's the step-by-step guide to configuring, designing, and implementing a network using OSPF (Open Shortest Path First), Cisco's most popular routing protocol. It covers the latest version, OSPF 2, and also discusses the protocols's constraints. An essential reference for all Cisco network engineers and technicians--especially those studying for the notoriously difficult CCIE exam, which demands full knowledge of OSPF to pass.

"Dr. Parkhurst brings his extraordinary teaching skills to this book, building the foundations of internetworking protocol expertise using concepts and fundamentals."--Imran Qureshi, CCIE Program Manager, CCIE #1030. Be prepared for the CCIE exam--or hone your Cisco expertise--with this best-of-class guide to network design and implementation for the OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) protocol. Both comprehensive and practical, Cisco Router OSPF doesn't leave you guessing. It picks up where Cisco documentation leaves off and explains everything from the underlying mechanisms of network data transmission to configuration issues and OSPF troubleshooting. Inside this guide, CCIE and former CCIE Preparation Lab Director, Dr. William Parkhurst, has put all the help you need to: understand network routing at both theoretical and practical levels; configure and design a network for OSPF, Version 2; handle IP addressing, subnetting, VLSM, and IP routing; avoid common design errors; migrate a network form RIP to OSPF; use OSPF with other protocols; implement OSPF over Frame Relay; monitor and debut the OSPF network. Cisco, far and away the leading provider of router-based technology, and OSPF, hold the keys to much of the Internetetworked future. Here's the step-by-step guide to configuration, design, and implementation that lets network engineers and technicians unlock that door.