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Basic OSPF / Lab 1 - OSPF Setup pt. 2
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Welcome back into OSPF Setup. We've just set up OSPF on our two WAN interfaces here. Now we're in the process of setting up OSPF on our LAN networks as well as our Loop back Interfaces. So this is the one way of configuring OSPF networks using the OSPF Network Command just like you would with EIGRP or, or RIP or just about any other network or routing protocol. However this is another way to do this and again, both ways are, are equally valid. I prefer the second way but again you need to know the Network Command for the exam. So we'll exit out back to the Main Config Mode and we'll go into the Interface Configuration Mode for our Fast Ethernet Interface. Fast Ethernet one zero, so we'll do Interface Fast Ethernet zero one, I'm sorry Fast Ethernet one zero and on this interface we could actually do IP OSPF put in the Process ID, one, Process ID one, Area 0 and hit Enter. And that tells the router, you take any networks that are valid on this Ethernet Interface and put them into OSPF. Again that works pretty well if you know exactly what interfaces you want to put in there. If you've got, you know, 50 interfaces on a router, obviously you'll want to Network Command and just get all 50 of them, all at once, assuming that, if you've got that many interfaces on a router, it's a Frame Relay hub or it's a service provider aggregation point. This is a good enough time to talk about the OSPF Area format. Now you'll notice when I hit the Question Mark up here for OSPF one Area Question Mark, we had the option of OSPF Area as a decimal value or OSPF Area ID in an IP address format. Again, both are valid. In this case, the actual OSPF Area ID would be 0.0.0.0 since we're giving it an Area ID of all zeros but as you'll recall, an IPv4 IP address is really a 32-bit number. Eight bits for each of the four octets and so if you wanted to, you could take any number between zero and 4.2 billion or whatever that number there is and convert it to an IP address by converting this number here to binary and then breaking up those binary bits into sections of eight bits each and then making an IP address out of those four sections of eight bits. And to kind of go off on a tangent, if you deal with SQL database like MySQL or Microsoft SQL, a lot of them will actually store IP addresses as this decimal value and in fact MySQL has a function to convert back and forth between that decimal value but we're not talking about MySQL, we're talking about, Cisco routing. At any rate most OSPF configurations, most OSPF implementations will use the OSPF Area ID as a decimal but it is important to know that you can actually specify an IP address format for an OSPF Area ID. So some of the documentation and some of the sample labs you'll find on the Internet and some of the ones that I found in, in preparation of this, that I based some of these labs on actually say configure OSPF Area 1.4.7.8 for example and you know, you could take that and convert it to a decimal value but just be aware that you can actually specify it either way. So anyway, back to the task at hand, finishing setting up OSPF. We've now configured OSPF on our corporate router, we haven't done the Loopback Interfaces but we just want to get the routers communicating on their management addresses if you will, the WAN addresses and the LAN address here in our corporate office and then we'll put the loopbacks in here once we get all that working. So we'll exit out of Config Mode here and we're going to verify that the networks we think are routed in OSPF are actually are routed in OSPF. So we do Show IP Protocols where our routing protocol is OSPF one. And it says we are routing for networks 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 Area 0 and we are actually routing in interfaces configured explicitly on Fast Ethernet one zero. And that's why I did both of the commands just so you could see it both ways. Now in most exams, since the exams lag behind the current most latest and greatest IOS version by a, a little bit anyway, you'll probably only see routing for networks et cetera, you'll only see the Network Commands on the exams, but I wanted to show you both ways just in case you do happen to get an updated exam version or an updated question and, and you see it both ways. So now what we're going to do, is we're going to set up OSPF on our Tennessee, Georgia and our LAN Routers here. Now the first thing I'm going to do on this router is debug IP OSPF adjacency. This way, as new routers come in to the OSPF Setup, we can actually see the adjacency's form and the neighbors come up and function properly. So let's go over here to Tennessee Router and we'll do the same thing. Go into Config Mode, Router OSPF One. In this case, we only have a single WAN address, so we'll do network 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.252, whoops I forgot the area. Area 0, after a few seconds you'll see OSPF five adjacency change, process one number 10.10.3.1 and we'll talk about this number here, well it's the Router ID basically, from loading to full, loading done, so now we have these two routers as OSPF neighbors. If we look over here on the Corp Router we can see all the stuff that happened. Hey I received the DBD, remember 2-Way communications, Exstart and Exchange and then it finally builds the adjacency as it exchanges the LSAs for Area 0. Alright, so we're well on our way to getting OSPF up and running. We'll pick it up in the next video.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Implementing Cisco IP Routing (642-902 ROUTE) |
| Author: | Greg Dickinson |
| SKU: | 34291 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-028-2 |
| Release Date: | 2011-12-28 |
| Duration: | 10 hrs / 105 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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