As a former English Major at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, I really loved the oxymoron. You remember those…”sharply dull” or “cruel kindness”. Well, the OSPF protocol has one whopper of an oxymoron in its special areas – The Totally, Not-So-Stubby area!... [Read the rest of this entry -->]
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Welcome back to our series on OSPF areas. Click here for Part 1 of the series. It is time to focus on normal areas and stub areas in this post. Recall our topology:... [Read the rest of this entry -->]
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Thanks to one of our brilliant CCIE R/S Written students, Nish, for his request of this series of INE blog posts. Nish is still struggling a bit with the different OSPF area types and how exactly they impact Link State Advertisements (LSAs). In this series, we will tackle each of the different OSPF areas in great detail, confirming our Level 1 knowledge at the command line as we progress.... [Read the rest of this entry -->]
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