by Maher Haddad | Jun 12, 2022 | Huawei OSPF
Another place where you could use an OSPF virtual link is when you have area 0 that is discontinuous. Let me show you this in a graph. You can see that area 0 is split and in between is area 1. In this case, we require to make virtual link in area 1. I have already...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 12, 2022 | Huawei OSPF
In this LAB, I will show you how you can configure Virtual Link when you have a transit area. A transit area is like what I have already explained, when you have for example area 2 connected to area 1, then area 1 is called a transit area because it has connectivity...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 12, 2022 | Huawei OSPF
From the last chapters we know that each area should be connected to the backbone area which is area 0. However, we may have cases where we have an OSPF area (like area 2) that is not directly connected to the backbone area but to another area (like area 1). In other...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 12, 2022 | Huawei OSPF
Once you use the network command on OSPF advertising a network, then hello packets are sent out of the interface where this network belongs to in order to try forming neighborship with a peer router. But what if we have the following scenario? In this scenario, you...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 12, 2022 | Huawei OSPF
OSPF summarization (also sometimes referred as aggregation) is a way to make a summary address for different networks which are in an area, so a summary address will be representing all those routes in the other area. This is one of the functions of the ABR....
by Maher Haddad | Jun 12, 2022 | Huawei OSPF
In this LAB, I will show you the difference between Type1 and Type2 when you import RIP to OSPF. To be able to show you the difference, we must remove the import route command that we have done on R3 to import RIP into OSPF. Now the OSPF routers cannot see the network...
