intermediate·20 min·Paid

OSPF Passive User LAN

Advertise a user LAN while keeping it passive in OSPF.

Scenario

Northbridge University is extending OSPF to a new student-services LAN while keeping routing control traffic off the user-facing segment. Preserve adjacency across the routed links and advertise the LAN without allowing it to become a neighbor-facing interface.

Learning objectives

  • ospf
  • passive interface
  • area 0

Topology and configuration

This environment contains 3 devices (3 Routers). You configure and troubleshoot the networking skills listed above.

Curriculum topics

Environment

Subnetica labs run FRRouting and Linux networking with Cisco-like syntax, not Cisco IOS. Commands and behavior may differ from Cisco devices.

Addressing is regenerated on every attempt and the environment is graded automatically.

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