Hi, all
At the risk of touching off a word war here, I wanted to see if I could
get some verification from the group. This is sort of a Howard B.
question in that it has philosophical undertones. What I am trying to
accomplish is to cement my understanding of the terms below.
I have been studying OSPF very heavily, and as you know, OSPF can pretty
much work over anything. It is the MIRACLE routing protocol, if you ask
me. However, OSPF can be confounding in that it can treat the
underlying network as something that it is not. For example, OSPF can
run on a broadcast network as it the broadcast network were actually a
point to multipoint network by executing the command ip ospf network
point-to-multipoint. This brings me to the point of my post:
What is the topology in my example? Broadcast? Point to multipoint?
Bus?
What is the network technology? Broadcast (such as Ethernet).
What is the OSPF network type? Point to multipoint (as set by me).
Would it be accurate to say that term, "network topology" describes the
arrangement of the network's links or amount of connectivity between the
routers on the network? On a broadcast network, what is the topology?
Would I consider it to be fully meshed as each router on a broadcast
network such as Ethernet would have a link to every other router? Or
does network topology describe an integration of the links and the
network technology?
Network technology is an easy one to define, so I think. It is the
complete _____________ compromising access methods, packet formation,
transmission methods, and so on. I am not sure what would fill in the
blank best: protocol? suite? means? mechanism?
OSPF network types are OSPF's description of what it or you describe the
network as. It does NOT have to match the actual topology of the
network.
Full mesh vs. partial mesh are somewhat easy to understand (amount of
connectivity between network devices on a network). Would it be fair to
say that the amount of meshing defines the topology?
I feel better after sharing my muddled thoughts with the group. Am I
overthinking this?
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Somewhere on the tank range...
Charles
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