Timeline for OSPF Point-To-Point Question
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| Aug 23, 2016 at 18:33 | history | edited | user27899 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 2265 characters in body |
| Aug 23, 2016 at 15:50 | comment | added | user27899 | That is correct, but many people do it, see RFC 5309 | |
| Aug 23, 2016 at 15:35 | comment | added | Ron Maupin♦ | By default, ethernet is a broadcast medium, and it must be specifically configured to be point-to-point for OSPF. | |
| Aug 23, 2016 at 15:33 | comment | added | user27899 | True, was assuming Ethernet | |
| Aug 23, 2016 at 15:26 | comment | added | Ron Maupin♦ | "...it uses the neighbor IP address's associated MAC address to forward the packet onwards [sic]." Unfortunately, that isn't true. In many cases of a point-to-point link, the interface protocol doesn't use MAC addresses. | |
| Aug 23, 2016 at 15:20 | history | edited | user27899 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 501 characters in body |
| Aug 23, 2016 at 15:05 | history | answered | user27899 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |