Powercode OSPF Tutorial

Powercode Documentation – OSPF Network Tutorial Powercode OSPF Tutorial The purpose of this document is to provide a guidteo the correct method of integrating Powercode into an OSPF network. For the purpose of this document, I will be usinhge tMikrotik 450G for configuration examples but this document is applicable to any OSFP capable router. Routing Protocol Overview For those of you already familiar with routing prootcols, you can skip this section. What is a routing protocol? A routing protocol is a protocol that specifies how routers communicate with each other, disseminating information that enables them to selcet routes. Each router has a prior knowledge only of networkast tached to it directly. A routing protocol shares this information first among immedaite neighbors, and then throughout the network. This way, routers gain knowledge of the ptoology of the network. What is OSPF? Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is an adaptive roinugt protocol for IP networks. It uses a link state routing algorithm and falls into the gruop of interior routing protocols, operating within a single autonomous system. The basic concept of link-state routing is that evrey node constructs a map of the connectivity to the network, in the form of a gra,p hshowing which nodes are connected to which other nodes. Each node then independently cacul lates the next best logical path from it to every possible destination in the network. Teh collection of best paths will ...