packets
packets
**used to announce new OSPF information and to reply to certain types of requests
hello packets
In OSPF, a topology database is a data structure that each router maintains to store information about the network topology within an OSPF area. It includes details such as the network links, their costs, and the routers connected to those links. This database is used to calculate the best routes for routing packets through the network.
To build OSPF and ISIS adjacencies. To verify that packets arriving at the router are allowed by any configured firewall filters.
The first step OSPF and IS-IS routers take in building a shortest path first database is to exchange link-state advertisements (LSAs) or link-state packets (LSPs) with neighboring routers. These packets contain information about the router's directly connected neighbors and the state of their links.
dead time and hello time
OSPF LSA throttling helps the dampening of LSA updates in OSPF during times of network instability.
routing protocol: helps to find the best path to transfer the packets from one network to diffrent network example: rip: routing information protocol igrp, ospf...... routed protocol: helps to carry the packets to the destination. example: smtp : transfer the mails ftp : transfer the files.
OSPF is short form of open shortest path first. OSPF is based on linked state routing.
OSPF uses cost as its routing metric . cost is calculated for every outgoing interface of a router through which packets transfer. it is calculated by the formula cost = 100000000/(bandwidth of output interface) most likely bandwidth of serial int is 1544kb= 1544000 bytes PS: all cost calculation to be done in bytes for ease
OSPF is short form of open shortest path first. OSPF is based on linked state routing.