7.6 Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Basics

• OSPF is an open standard routing protocol
• OSPF works by using the Dijkstra algorithm
• OSPF features:

1. Consists of areas and autonomous systems
2. Minimizes routing update traffic
3. Allow scalability
4. Support VLSM/CIDR
5. Has unlimited hop count
6. Allow multi-vendor deployment (open standard)