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Week 9: Link State Protocol (LSP) Flashcards

1
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What is a Link-State Routing Protocol?

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A Distributed DB Algorithm

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What occurs in a Link-State Routing Protocols?

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  1. Each router is responsible for meeting its neighbours & learning who they are
  2. Each router constrcuts an LSA which contains a list of the neighbours (links) & costs to them
  3. The LSA is sent to all routers in the AS & each router stores the most recent LSA from all other routers (LSA-db)
  4. Each router now computes best routes to all networks based on the LSA information
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What is an LSA?

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Link State Advertisement

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What are the properties of Distance Vector Routing Protocols?

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  • Entire Routing Table is sent as an Update
  • Periodically sends updates every 30 or 90 seconds
  • Updates are Broadcast or Multicast
  • Updates are sent to directly connected neighbour only
  • Router don’t have end to end visibility of entire network
  • Prone to routing loops
  • Slow to converge
  • Easy to configure & administer
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What are the properties of Link-State routing protocols?

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  • Updates are incremental, & entire routing table is not sent as update
  • Updates are triggered, not periodic
  • Updates are Multicast
  • Updates are sent to entire network
  • Updates carry SPF tree information & cost calculation for entire topology
  • No routing loops
  • convergence is fast b/c of triggered updates
  • Harder to configure
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6
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Give an example of a Distance Vector Routing Protocol

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RIP

IGRP

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7
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Give an example of Link State routing Protocols

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OSPF

IS-IS

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8
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OPSF is what type of Routing Protocol?

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Link-State

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9
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What do Link-State protocols allow?

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Allow Routers to share a common view of the entire network

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In OSPF, what is sent out by routers?

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LSA’s describing their attached links to all routers in an area

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In OPSF, each router holds what?

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A Topological Database of the entire area

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12
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What routing algorithm is used by OSPF?

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Shortest Path First (SPF) a.k.a. Dijkstra

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True or False: SPF is a routing protocol

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False, SPF is the algorithm used by the routing protocol

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14
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What are the reasons to implement OSPF in a Hierarchical Design?

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  • Decrease routing overhead
  • Speed up convergence
  • Confine network instability to single areas of the network
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What is a Router ID?

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An IP address used to identify the router

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What is a Neighbour?

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Two or more routers having an interface on common network

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17
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What is Adjacency?

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Permits direct exchange of route updates

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18
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What is a Designated Route?

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elected to minimize adjacencies

19
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What is a Backup Designated Router?

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A standby for a Designated Router

20
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What is a Hello Protocol?

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Provides dynamic neighbour discovery

21
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What is a Neighbour Database?

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A list of all OSPF routers for which Hello Packets have been seen

22
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What is a Topological Database?

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Information from all of the LSA’s received for an area

23
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What is a Link State Advertisement (LSA)?

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A packet containing link-state & routing information that’s shared among OSPF Routers

24
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What is an OSPF Area?

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A group of networks & routers sharing a common area ID

25
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What are the steps in OSPF Operation?

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  1. Neighbour & Adjacency Initialization
  2. LSA Flooding
  3. Shortest Path First Tree Calculation
26
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In OSPF operation, what happens during Neighbour & Adjacency initialization?

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  • An OSPF Router forms adjacencies with neighbours

- A Designated Router and Backup Designated Router are elected in OSPF

27
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In OSPF operation, what happens during LSA flooding?

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routers flood their Link State Advertisements

28
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What is the general format of a Hello Message?

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  • Hello Layer
  • OSPF Layer
  • IP Packet Layer
  • Layer 2 Info Layer
29
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In a Hello Message, what is the Hello segment?

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  • The Presentation Card

- Contains Router ID & Timers

30
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In a Hello Message, what is the OSPF Layer?

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The general header for OSPF

31
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In a Hello Message, what is the IP Packet Layer?

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Encapsulation of the OSPF Message

32
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In a Hello Message, what is the Layer 2 Information layer?

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Contains a protocol such as Ethernet to deliver the packet to the next hop

33
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What is LSA Flooding?

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Link-State data is shared with all OSPF routers within an area via LSA updates (LSU)

34
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What is the reserved multicast address for OSPF?

35
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True or False: Each recipient doesn’t have to acknowledge that an LSA flood update has been recieved

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False, Each recipient must acknowledge that the flooded update has been received

36
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What metric does OSPF use?

37
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What is the cost metric for OSPF associated with?

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every outgoing interface included in an SPF Tree

38
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What are the five different types of OSPF Packets?

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  1. Hello Packet
  2. Database Description Packet
  3. Link State Request Packet
  4. Link State Update Packet
  5. Link State Acknowledgement
39
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What is the function of the Hello Packet in OSPF?

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Neighbour discovery & adjacency maintenance

40
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What is the function of the Database Description Packet in OSPF?

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Summarizes topological database b/w routers during initialization of neighbour relationship

41
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What is the function of the Link State Request Packet in OSPF?

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Request Link State information from a neighbour’s database

42
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What is the function of the Link State Update Packet in OSPF?

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Advertises available links via network flooding

43
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What is the function of the Link State Acknowledgement Packet in OSPF?

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Response to flooded links sent via Link State Updates

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