Chapter 23. Implementing OSPF for IPv6

This chapter covers the following exam topics:

2.0 Routing Technologies

2.5 Configure, verify, and troubleshoot single area and multiarea OSPFv3 for IPv6 (excluding authentication, filtering, manual summarization, redistribution, stub, virtual-link, and LSAs)

When IPv6 was defined back in the 1990s, Open Shortest Path First Version 2 (OSPFv2) was a popular routing protocol for IPv4 networks. IPv6 needed routing protocols. One solution was to create a new version of OSPF: OSPF Version 3 (OSPFv3). The original OSPFv3 RFC defined a routing protocol to advertise IPv6 routes, using many similar concepts as compared to OSPFv2, but with of course some differences.

Because OSPFv2 (for IPv4) and OSPFv3 (for IPv6) ...

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