Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) - 12 : Advantages and Disadvantages
This playlist provides an overview of the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol and its advantages and disadvantages:
• 26 : OSPF - Fundamentals of Communications
Now that we've learned how OSPF routing works, let's examine its advantages and disadvantages.
The advantages of OSPF are:
OSPF networks are faster to converge than RIP-routed networks
OSPF has the ability to support larger and more complex networks than RIP
OSPF supports equal cost, multi-path capability, which is the ability to forward traffic across multiple paths to a single destination
And finally, OSPF uses metrics to determine the best path to a destination - it does not just depend on hop count, like RIP does
A disadvantage of OSPF is that it's more complex for the network manager to configure and set up than RIP, and it requires greater computing power within the router.