OSPF and BGP are very different. The reason I suggested Net::BGP as a starting point is that it implements event driven code based on receipt of routing packets.

This is a bit off topic, so I won't go into too much detail, but OSPF is a multicast connectionless protocol - route updates are sent to a multicast address (224.0.0.5). BGP is connection oriented - routers are configured with relationships to each other, and unicast updates over TCP. When I was first learning both OSPF and BGP I wrote some brief notes on each, which you can see here. (I make no warranty as to their accuracy).

For your purposes I would suggest starting by sniffing some OSPF LSAs from the wire, using tcpdump/ethereal/some other packet sniffer listening to 224.0.0.5, and (referring to the OSPF rfcs where necessary) writing some code to parse and interpret them.

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In reply to Re^3: OSPF Protocol by g0n
in thread OSPF Protocol by mosh

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