[Xorp-users] Question about ospf protocol implementation on XORP

[riccardo.sciaccaluga@tin.it]

Hi
I have been reading all the exchanged mail about establishing ospf 
adiacences but i have a question.
Ospf is supposed to be a link state 
packet routing protocol; this means the protocol is able to build up 
its knowledge about the network topology by itself with hello packets 
exchange so the questiopn is:
Why in the config file sample exchanged 
inside the mail i have been looking at, there is the declaration of the 
neighbours id(adress) for each interface of the router?
Moreover how 
could it be a simple config file just to run ospf protocol on routers 
placed in a simple network topology A<-->B<-->C....i mean how could it 
be a simple config file that let the router exchanging hello packets 
and building up the network topology by themselves?
Thank in advance