OSPF v2 (IPv4)

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) used to exchange routing information between routers within a single autonomous system (AS).

OSPF calculates the best path based on true costs using a metric assigned by a network administrator.

RIP, the oldest IGP protocol chooses the least-cost path based on hop count.

OSPF is more efficient than RIP, has a quicker convergence, and provides equal-cost multipath routing where packets to a single destination can be sent using more than one interface.

OSPF is suitable for complex networks with a large number of routers. It can coexist with RIP on a network.

You can run OSPF over a route-based VPN by enabling OSPF on a virtual tunnel interface (VTI).

Gaia Embedded supports OSPFv2, which supports IPv4 addressing.

Important - In a cluster, you must configure the routing settings separately on each Quantum Spark Cluster Member.