Telecommunications Network Lab I -ECEG-6328

Lab 3- OSPF routing Protocol

1. Objectives
To understand and analysis OSPF routing protocol.

 Create a network topology using GNS3

 Configure the basic router and host configuration
 Configure OSPF
 Examine OSPF protocol working principle

2. Requirements
This lab uses the following software tools

 Wireshark to capture and examine the packets

 GNS3 – to create network topology

3. Network Topology
The network topology and the IP addressing scheme are shown in the figure below.
4. Task 1
Configure the IPV4 addresses for the routers and VPCs as shown in the figure

5. Task 2: configure OSPF on the routers

Enabling OSPF routing

R(config)#router ospf 1

Configuring the router to advertise the attached networks in the OSPF updates with all
interfaces in area 0

R(config-router)#network <networks address> < wildcard mask> area 0

6. Task 3: verify your configuration

R#show ip OSPF

R#show ip OSPF interface

7. Task 4: Verify OSPF operation

Use the “show ip ospf” command to see the adjacent routers information [the Neighbor id, the
interface used to reach the neighbor router, etc.]

R#show ip OSPF neighbor

Run the “show ip protocols” command to see further information about the ospf operation

R#show ip protocols

Verify the routing tables of the routers

R#show ip route

Try to understand how the link cost is computed

Verify that PC1 and PC2 ping each other

8. Task 5: Examine OSPF messages

Capture OSPF messages that are exchanged between the routers on one of the links using
Wireshark.
 Identify the different types of OSPF packets and the main information contained in the
packets
 Which one of the OSPF packets are unicast and multicast?