I am looking for a good book or some study material to help me with troubleshooiting our OSPF and BGP network. I seem to get confused with numerous statics in the network and need a better understanding of what route should go where to fix connectivity issues.
I have read Cisco press books on OSPF and BGP but am looking for help only in the areas of troubleshooting routing for those protocols.
Thanks you very much for your help.
You may wish to investigate Cisco's Troubleshooting Open Shortest Path First ( OSPF ):
Brad Reese Cisco Technical Forums
If you have any specific current issues, then post the details - the router configs, the output of show version on each of the routers and the output of sh ip route along witht the output of the OSPF topology database and BGP route table.
Generally using static routes to fix connectivity issues doesn't sound good to me ...
Merv,
I totally agree that statics don't help. My questions are mostly regarding if I find a static or am having problems getting to a certain route, I have troubleshooting one what route should go where, and two do I have to keep a static route and repoint it, or can I use the IGP. This is not a specific problem I am having, just need to get beter at troubleshooting statics and routing issues.
Merv wrote:
better > understanding of what route should go where to fix connectivity issues.
Is the network a corporate network or an ISP network?
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