OSPF – Single Area

– Serial Link
KHAWAR BUTT
CCIE # 12353 [R/S, SECURITY, SP, DC, VOICE, STORAGE & CCDE]
Overview
 Overview of Basic OSPF Configuration
 Configuring OSPF on a Point – To – Point Serial Link
 Lab Configuration c
Lab Diagram
Loopback0
1.0.0.0/8

Loopback0 Loopback0
2.0.0.0/8 3.0.0.0/8
R1

E 0/0
Loopback0
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R2 R3
E 0/0 E 0/0
S 1/0 192.168.100.0/24 E 0/1

R6
192.168.101.0/24 192.168.103.0/24 E 0/0

S 1/0
E 0/0
R5
S 1/1 R4
S 1/0
192.168.102.0/24

Loopback0
5.0.0.0/8 Loopback0
4.0.0.0/8
Basic OSPF Configuration
All Routing Protocols are enabled by using the “Router” command.

In order to enable OSPF, you use the “Router OSPF” command followed by a
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The Process is locally significant. It does not need to match the neighboring router.

To enable OSPF, you type

R1(config)#Router ospf 1
R1(config-router)#
Basic OSPF Configuration
 OSPF Routers requires a unique identifier. This ID is known as the Router
ID.
 It can be set either of the 3 ways and in that order.
1. Manually under the Router ospf processc using the “router-id” command.
2. If the command is missing under the process, OSPF tries to pick the router-id
based on the Highest IP address on a Loopback.
3. If you don't have a loopback interface, it will use the highest IP address on any
Physical Interface.

R1(config)#Router ospf 1
R1(config-router)#router-id 0.0.0.1
Network Command
 Just like the other Routing protocols, the “Network” Command is used by the Routing
Protocols on the specified Interface.
 By Enabling the routing protocol under the interface, it will take the following 2 actions:
• 1. It will allow the router to send and receive OSPF updates on that interface.
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• 2. It will send/advertise this interface network on other OSPF enabled interfaces.
 In OSPF, the network command allows you the ability to enable OSPF on a Major network or
subnets. The subnets can be specified using a Inverse Mask.
 The Area that the interface belongs to is also specified in the Network Command.
 You enable OSPF on all the directly connected interfaces.
R1(config)#Router OSPF 1
R1(config-router)#Network 10.1.1.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
R1(config-router)#Network 11.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 area 0
R1(config-router)#Network 192.1.13.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
Configuring OSPF on a Point –
To – Point Serial Interface
 OSPF detects a Point-to-Point Interface by looking at the Encapsulation of
the Interface. When it sees either HDLC or PPP as the encapsulation, it
knows it is a Point-to-point segment.
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 A P2P segment will only have 1 neighbor hence does not require a DR or
BDR.

 There is no DR or BDR on a Point – To – Point Segment.

Lab Configuration
 Configure OSPF in Area 0 on the Point – To – Point Serial Links. The Point –
To – Point Links are connected to R2, R4 & R5. Also enable OSPF on the
Loopback Interfaces on these routers.
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 Assign each router a Router ID manually using the 0.0.0.X format, where X
is the router #.

 R2, R4 & R5 loopbacks should be reachable to each other.

Lab Configuring
R2

R2(config)#Router OSPF 1
R2(config-router)#router-id 0.0.0.2
R2(config-router)#network 192.168.101.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
R2(config-router)#network 2.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 area 0
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R4

R4(config)#Router OSPF 1
R4(config-router)#router-id 0.0.0.4
R4(config-router)#network 192.168.102.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
R4(config-router)#network 4.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 area 0
R5

R5(config)#Router OSPF 1
R5(config-router)#router-id 0.0.0.5
R5(config-router)#network 192.168.101.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
R5(config-router)#network 192.168.102.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
R5(config-router)#network 4.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 area 0
Verifications
 Type Show IP OSPF Neighbors on R5. You should see 2 Neighbors listed.

 Type Show IP route OSPF on R2. You should see the Loopback Interfaces of
R4 & R5. They will be listed as a Hostcrouter “/32”. This is due to the fact that
OSPF treats a Loopback as a Host and advertises it with a /32 mask.

 Type Show IP OSPF Interface S 1/0 on R4. The Link will have a Network
Type of Loopback.

 Type Show IP OSPF Interface S 1/0 on R2. The Link will have a Network
Type of Point-to-point.
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