For both OSPF and EIGRP routers to become neighbors, their interface’s primary IP address must be on the same subnet. That statement is true. There is a difference in the definition of “same subnet”, though.

In OSPF, both routers have to be configured to be on the same subnet with the same mask or else they won’t neighbor up.  When an hello packet is sent, the subnet mask is sent embedded in there.  The router does a quick look to be sure the subnets are defined the same way on both ends.  If everything doesn’t match, they don’t neighbor. Here’s a Wireshark screenshot to show you the OSPF hello.  Note: See edit below.

Are you sensing a theme lately?  Since we covered the basics of the main IGPs (I’m an enterprise guy, so no IS-IS comments, please.), I thought I’d try to describe the basics of advertising IPv6 routes over BGP.  Yet again, we’re not going to do any route manipulation or change any of the 948284928 BGP attributes.  We’re just trying to get routes exchanged.

Configuration

There’s no new version of BGP for IPv6 here.  It’s the standard BGP version 4 that we’ve all been using for years, but we’re going to take advantage of the multiprotocol support (MPBGP, RFC 2858 RFC 4760).  We’ll get to the differences in a second, but the first thing to do is to set up the BGP process as normal.  

Feel free to correct.

Study Questions

• What are the definitions of the hello and dead intervals?

The hello intervals is how often a router sends hello messages.  The dead interval is how long to wait before considering a neighbor dead from lack of hello messages; this is 4x the hello interval by default.

• How do you keep OSPF from trying to detect neighbors on an interface?

Don’t configure a network statement for that interface Make that interface passive