Chapter 23

Implementing Optional OSPF Features

This chapter covers the following exam topics:

3.0 IP Connectivity

3.2 Determine how a router makes a forwarding decision by default

3.2.b Administrative distance

3.2.c Routing protocol metric

3.4 Configure and verify single area OSPFv2

3.4.a Neighbor adjacencies

3.4.b Point-to-point

3.4.c Broadcast (DR/BR selection)

3.4.d Router ID

The previous chapter showed how to configure the core OSPF settings to make OSPF work. This chapter examines a variety of optional OSPF settings, chosen for two reasons. First, the CCNA exam topics mention or imply coverage of many of the optional features mentioned in this chapter. Second, the optional features listed here happen to be relatively popular in production ...

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