by Maher Haddad | Jun 12, 2022 | Huawei OSPF
I am still in the same LAB scenario. From the last LAB we know that R1 (who has router id 11.11.11.11) is the DR and R3 (who has the router id 3.3.3.3) is the BDR. Now I want to make the change needed to make R2 as the DR but I am not allowed to change the router id...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 12, 2022 | Huawei OSPF
In chapter 1, I have spoken about the Designated Router (DR) and Backup Designated Router (BDR) and I have explained why we need them in our OSPF network. In this chapter, I want to show you how the DR and BDR are being elected and this will be shown in LABS. Before...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 12, 2022 | Huawei OSPF
We are still in the same LAB. At this moment neighborship is formed between R1 and R2. We have seen in the hello packet that authentication on OSPF should match in order for the neighborship to be formed. By default, Huawei routers do not have any authentication on...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 12, 2022 | Huawei OSPF
We are still in the same LAB. At this moment there is neighborship between R1 and R2 as you see here below: What I need to do is to change the area on R2 and make it area 1 instead of area 0. Remember, we have seen that areas should be the same for the OSPF...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 12, 2022 | Huawei OSPF
We are still in the same LAB. What I want now to do is to change the hello interval. As this moment, the hello interval on both router is 10 seconds as we have checked in the previous LAB and that’s because we are in a broadcast network. Also, we know that in case the...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 12, 2022 | Huawei OSPF
I do have 2 routers connected to a switch, then this is a broadcast network type. I only have IP addresses set on the routers, now I need to configure OSPF and check if they will be forming neighborship. Let’s check if R1 can reach R2 with a ping command. The ping is...
