OSPF - Check

Gone through Narbik’s OSPF labs. Went all good with most of them. Not much caught me out.. Just a few obscure commands… Like these:

max-metric router-lsa ! This guy advertises the largest metric so this router is the least preferred path through the network. Never used it before!

area x range xxxxx not-advertise ! to filter route updates as opposed to distribute lists

area x nssa translate type7 suppress-fa ! when converting to type5 LSAs makes the forwarding address 0.0.0.0 as opposed to the one in the type7 LSA

That’s about it really… Like I have mentioned previously, I am finding this stuff too easy for my liking. I dont know if it is because of the methodical nature of Narbik’s books or what. I am not that comfortable with this. I think I will go further through the books and when I’m done, so the Cisco Assessor lab to get my arse into a reality check. Hopefully I balls them up totally so I can see if my fears are realised… But if I do ok with them then I know I am doing something right!