Troubleshooting OSPF Neighbor Adjacency

[lagapidis (Lazarus Agapidis)]

Hello Virgilio

Take a look at this post…

OSPF Packets and Neighbor Discovery

Hello Gareth Concerning the other types of OSPF packets, the answer is that many of these can actually be both unicast and multicast. It depends on the way in which they are used. Specifically: DBDs are sent using the unicast address that has been obtained from the hello exchanges. This involves the creation and maintenance of a master/slave relationship between neighbours to regulate communication. Whether or not multicast addresses (and which multicast addresses) are used also depends on…

I hope this has been helpful!

Laz