OSPF is a popular interior gateway protocol, frequently encountered by network engineers. Here’s how to get it up and running in a network. Open shortest path first, or OSPF, is a routing protocol ...

See how to install, set up, and use Zebra to build a Linux system that can serve as an OSPF and BGP router. You’ve no doubt heard of routers from giants such as Cisco and Nortel, but what about Linux?

Well, at least one of you asked… and I did promise! Next we’ll move on to Type 5 (external) LSAs. (yeeha!) But if you didn’t yet vote for your top requests from Santa for this year, at least relative ...

As is the case in many parts of the computing world, computers often use different methods for coming up with an answer than we humans would use. Today, I’ll take a closer look at the OSPF puzzle I ...