OSPF Summary Notes | Cheatsheet – Part q Version 2

Key Attributes
Protocol Type/Class: IP / Link State
Algorithm: SPF (Dijkstra’s)
Type: IGP (Interior Gateway Protocol)
Metric: Cost (Bandwidth)
Eq Cost Routes handling:
No. of packet types:
CEF Load Balancing
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DR/BDR in OSPF
Admin Distance: 110
Reference BW: 108 1. High No. of Adjacencies
Problems
Standard: RFC2328 (OSPFv2), RFC2740 (OSPFv3/IPv6) 2. Excessive LSA flooding
Multicast Address: 224.0.0.5, 224.0.0.6
Protocols: IP Solution DR/BDR Model
Transport: IP (Port89)
V-Link Support: YES
DR/BDR Election Criteria:
DR i. Highest OSPF Interface Priority
ii. Highest Router ID (if OSPF interface priorities are equal)
OSPF Router ID Selection Criteria BDR Router with the Second Highest OSPF Interface Priority

Most of Routers (including Cisco) derive the Router ID in the following

precedence order: Priority:
1. Manually configured Router ID OSPF Priority Range: 0 to 255
2. Highest Loopback Address 1 = Default Priority
3. Highest Physical IP Address on the Router 0 = Means the Router will never become DR/BDR

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OSPF Router Types

OSPF Cost
IR BR ABR ASBR
(Internal Router) (Backbone Router) (Area Border Router) (AS Boundary Router) Cost Formula
All interfaces in the same area At least one interface in BB
Area/Area0
A Router connecting different Areas A Router connecting different AS’s
Reference BW 100 Mb 108
OSPF Cost = = =
Interface BW/Speed Link Speed Link Speed

OSPF Default Cost

OSPF Timers (Intervals) Interface Type Interface / BW Ref BW Cost
Default Hello Default Dead FE (100M) 100,000 10^8 1 (=10^8 /100,000 /1000)
OSPF Network Type Eth (10M) 10,000 10^8 10 (=10^8 /10,000 /1000)
Interval Interval
E1 (2M) 2048 10^8 48 (=10^8 /2048 /1000)
Broadcast 10 seconds 40 seconds
T1 (1.54M) 1544 10^8 64 (=10^8 /1544 /1000)
Non-broadcast 30 second 120 seconds 64 kbps Serial 64 10^8 1562 (=10^8 /64 /1000)
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Point-to-Point 10 seconds 40 seconds

Point-to-Multipoint 30 seconds 120 seconds

Point-to-Multipoint 30 seconds 120 seconds

Non-broadcast
Loopback N/A N/A

*For most of the vendors: Dead Intervals = 4 x Hello interval

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