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OSPF Stub Area

Scenario: You are working as a trainee for a company specialized in Fantasy E-books. Since the E-book market in fantasy stories isn’t very promising at the moment they company is still using older network equipment. One of their…

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OSPF NSSA (Not so stubby area)

Scenario: You are the network engineer for a new service provider called “Mythical Bits”. The routing protocol for the backbone of the network will be OSPF. To reduce the size of routing tables the company decided they want…

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OSPF Virtual Link and Summarization

Scenario: The Company you are currently working for has recently bought a smaller organization and now needs to connect the 2 networks together. Company policy specifies that only OSPF can be used as a routing protocol and it’s…

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OSPF Intermediate

Scenario: As a network engineer you are familiar with the concepts of OSPF and single-area implementations, however you never tried to create a multi-area ospf configuration. You have heard about different area types like stubby, not so stubby…

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OSPF Single Area

Scenario: AsianFish inc. is expanding their business towards Europe so they need to expand their network as well. You are responsible for the performance of the network and decided that OSPF would be a suitable candidate for a…

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