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Experience with the OSPF Protocol



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Network Working Group                                     J. Moy, Editor
Request for Comments: 1246                                     July 1991


                   Experience with the OSPF protocol



Status of this Memo

This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not
specify any Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.


Abstract

This is the second of two reports on the OSPF protocol. These reports
are required by the IAB/IESG in order for an Internet routing protocol
to advance to Draft Standard Status. OSPF is a TCP/IP routing protocol,
designed to be used internal to an Autonomous System (in other words,
OSPF is an Interior Gateway Protocol).

OSPF is currently designated as a Proposed Standard. Version 1 of the
OSPF protocol was published in RFC 1131. Since then OSPF version 2 has
been developed. Version 2 has been documented in RFC 1247.  The changes
between version 1 and version 2 of the OSPF protocol are explained in
Appendix F of RFC 1247. It is OSPF Version 2 that is the subject of this
report.

This report documents experience with OSPF V2. This includes reports on
interoperability testing, field experience, simulations and the current
state of OSPF implementations. It also presents a summary of the OSPF
Management Information Base (MIB), and a summary of OSPF authentication
mechanism.

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1.0  Introduction

This document addresses, for OSPF V2, the requirements set forth by the
IAB/IESG for an Internet routing protocol to advance to Draft Standard
state. This requirements are briefly summarized below. The remaining
sections of this report document how OSPF V2 satisfies these
requirements:






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