09-15-2008 12:43 AM - edited 03-06-2019 01:22 AM
Hi all
Just a little question about ospf
fistly, when we talk about neighbours, does it only form neighbour relationships with directly connected routers, and will only directly connected neighbours show in the neighbour table?
and secondly when we talk about the topology table, is this a list of all the routers ihe area and how to get there? and is this the same on each router?
can anyone possibly explain this and show me an output from a router for both ?
09-15-2008 01:21 AM
Hi,
1.Yes it is directly connected neigbors only , in OSPF
2.It is list of all links in the area & their states , router ID's ,
3.See the output below
R4-4K(4)# show ip ospf database router 172.16.30.1
OSPF Router with ID (172.16.35.1) (Process ID 20)
Router Link States (Area 0)
LS age: 202
Options: (No TOS-capability, DC)
LS Type: Router Links
Link State ID: 172.16.30.1
Advertising Router: 172.16.30.1
LS Seq Number: 80000002
Checksum: 0xC899
Length: 60
Number of Links: 3
Link connected to: another Router (point-to-point)
(Link ID) Neighboring Router ID: 172.16.35.1
(Link Data) Router Interface address: 172.16.32.2
Number of TOS metrics: 0
TOS 0 Metrics: 64
Link connected to: a Stub Network
(Link ID) Network/subnet number: 172.16.32.0
(Link Data) Network Mask: 255.255.255.0
Number of TOS metrics: 0
TOS 0 Metrics: 64
Link connected to: a Stub Network
(Link ID) Network/subnet number: 172.16.30.1
(Link Data) Network Mask: 255.255.255.255
Number of TOS metrics: 0
TOS 0 Metrics: 1
R4-4k(4)#
HTH...rate if helpful..
09-15-2008 01:40 AM
hi there, how come you have typed the ip of another router? can you not see all routers?
what is the benefit of know all this information ?
09-15-2008 01:44 AM
Hi,
If you want see databse for all routers, then you don't have to type any IP Address.
This very useful to to the troubleshooting releated to LSAs.
09-15-2008 02:43 AM
why does each router need to know about the whole topology? know other distance vector use routing by rumour,but I would like to know the benefit of know about whats going on several hops away.
cheers
09-15-2008 06:00 AM
1.That's the difference between link state & distance vector protocol.Link state protocol keeps information of complete topology.
2.faster convergence & scalibility are the advantages of link state routing protocols.
HTH..rate if helpful..
09-15-2008 07:39 AM
Can you tell me how knowing about the whole network would make it converge quicker ?
09-26-2008 12:19 AM
Hi There
When we say ospf neighbour, how does this work when say multiple routers are plugged into a switch and they can all see each other on a broadcast lan? would all routers be a neighbour of eachother ?
09-26-2008 07:29 AM
Carl,
yes to be neighbor two routers must share a network segment
ospf hellos have destination 224.0.0.6 with TTL=1 and cannot be propagated by a L3 device in the middle.
Multiple routers that have an interface in the same vlan can become neighbor of each other if mandatory OSPF parameters match:
hello interval
dead interval
OSPF area id
OSPF stub flag = OSPF area type
OSPF authentication (if used)
and OSPF router-ids are not duplicated
Actually one router is elected DR, another is BDR.
Full adjancencies are built between all other routers and DR and BDR.
neighbor = see each other router-ids in hellos
adjacent = link state DB in sync state
Hope to help
Giuseppe
09-26-2008 01:37 PM
hi there, so
will they all be neighbours on the same segment?
when you talk about being adjacent, are they only adjacent with the dr and bdr?
can show show me an outout of this ?
09-26-2008 02:12 PM
Hello Carl,
the answers are yes, yes
an example is
mclaren#sh ip ospf n
Neighbor ID Pri State Dead Time Address Interface
10.0.3.1 1 FULL/DR 00:00:32 10.1.2.1 Ethernet4/3
172.16.60.10 1 FULL/DR 00:00:32 192.168.47.1 FastEthernet0/0.147
172.16.60.11 1 FULL/DROTHER 00:00:39 192.168.47.2 FastEthernet0/0.147
172.16.60.5 1 FULL/DR 00:00:38 192.168.102.2 FastEthernet0/0.150
172.16.60.6 1 FULL/BDR 00:00:34 192.168.64.1 FastEthernet0/0.64
mclaren#
in vlan 147 there are three routers and router with RID 172.16.60.11 is DRother the router on which the command is given is the BDR for the segment.
Hope to help
Giuseppe
01-12-2009 08:58 AM
hi there, so what if we have point to point links? ie a e1 connecion? do we need to do any manual config, or will it set itself as point to point on these types of interface and have no dr/bdr? in which case it will be fully adjacent ?
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