09-12-2009, 07:02 PM
Abstract:
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a routing protocol developed for Internet Protocol (IP) networks by the Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). design an IGP based on the Shortest Path First (SPF) algorithm for use in the Internet. Similar to the Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP), Routing Information Protocol (RIP) was increasingly incapable of serving large, heterogeneous internetworks