At my place of employment, my group has a management network for our devices and switches that we control. This is separate from the management used by the networking team for everything else ...

I’ve seen networks of 50 or so OSPF routers, which would operate just fine as one big area, needlessly divided into more than a dozen areas.

Now, obviously this is a discontiguous network (I'm messing around to try and make stuff work when it ordinarily shouldn't) but OSPF should be able to handle it and EIGRP has the no auto-summary ...

Finally, the non-broadcast network type in OSPF uses “slow” timers meaning 30 second hello and 120 second dead-time. A good way to remember this is that frame-relay is a WAN technology.

Even Jeff Doyle tells me that I should do a little blogging with OSPF. What’s a networker to do with that kind of backing? And a few others expressed some interest as well – in understanding ...

The OSPF Weight Setting Problem represents one of the most significant challenges in network optimization, with far-reaching implications for the future of connectivity.