When you want to interconnect 2 OSPF processes in static mode for design requirements or just temporary in a migration scenario you have to instruct routers to not receive routing update information and to not advertize networks to another router. By default when you start an OSPF process all interfaces of the router send Hello packets to discovery neighborships. To …
OSPF – bandwidth reference
in OSPF bandwidth reference variable is used to calculate the cost of a link. The default is 100Mbps so the cost calculation in 1998 was good (RFC2328) but in today’s times we have a jumbo link that transport our packets like 10Gbps, 40Gbps, 100Gbps. If we do nothing, a 1Gbps link and a 10Gbps link will be considered with the …