Re^2: OSPF Protocol

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Re^3: OSPF Protocol by g0n (Priest) on Mar 03, 2005 at 12:38 UTC
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. VGhpcyBtZXNzYWdlIGludGVudGlvbmFsbHkgcG9pbnRsZXNz	[reply]
Re^3: OSPF Protocol by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Mar 03, 2005 at 12:31 UTC
No they aren't the same protocol I'm afraid. It looks like you are going to be starting with Net::RawIP and a copy of RFC 2328 :-s Good Luck! /J\	[reply]