Preface
This book is the companion to OSPF: Anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol. In keeping with the Internet tradition of valuing “rough consensus and working code,” this book provides a complete OSPF implementation to go with the previous description of the OSPF protocol. The implementation is written in C++ and has been designed for portability. Two sample ports are included: (1) an OSPF routing daemon, called ospfd, for the Linux operating system and (2) an OSPF routing simulator, ospf_sim, that can be run under Linux or Windows.
The text of this book provides design documentation for the implementation, a porting guide, and user manuals for the two sample ports. The data flow and major data structures are explained, using code fragments ...
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