Chapter 9. Advanced OSPF

This chapter covers the following subjects:

Areas: This section describes the benefits and functions of areas within an OSPF routing domain.

Link-State Advertisements: This section explains how OSPF stores, communicates, and builds a topology from the link-state advertisements (LSAs).

Discontiguous Networks: This section demonstrates a discontiguous network and explains why such a network cannot distribute routes to all areas properly.

OSPF Path Selection: This section explains how OSPF makes path selection choices for routes learned within the OSPF routing domain.

Summarization of Routes: This section explains how network summarization works with OSPF.

Route Filtering: This section explains how OSPF routes can be filtered ...

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