OSPF Point-to-Multipoint Non-Broadcast Network Type over Frame-Relay

In a previous lesson, I showed you how to configure the OSPF point-to-multipoint network type. This time we’ll look at the OSPF point-to-multipoint non-broadcast network type. It’s the same thing, but we’ll have to specify OSPF neighbors ourselves. Here is the topology that we’ll use:

There are a couple of things that you need to be aware of:

No Automatic neighbor discovery, so you need to configure OSPF neighbors yourself!
No DR/BDR election since OSPF sees the network as a collection of point-to-point links.
Only a single IP subnet is used in the topology above.

Here’s the configuration for the Hub router:

Hub(config)#interface serial 0/0
Hub(config-if)#ip address 192.168.123.1 255.255.255.0
Hub(config-if)#encapsulation frame-relay
Hub(config-if)#ip ospf network point-to-multipoint non-broadcast
Hub(config-if)#exit
Hub(config)#router ospf 1
Hub(config-router)#network 192.168.123.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
Hub(config-router)#neighbor 192.168.123.2
Hub(config-router)#neighbor 192.168.123.3

This is the hub configuration. I changed the network type to point-to-multipoint non-broadcast, advertised the 192.168.123.0 /24 network in OSPF, and, most important…specified the OSPF neighbors myself. Let’s look at the spoke router configuration:

Spoke1(config)#interface serial 0/0
Spoke1(config-if)#ip address 192.168.123.2 255.255.255.0
Spoke1(config-if)#encapsulation frame-relay 
Spoke1(config-if)#ip ospf network point-to-multipoint non-broadcast
Spoke1(config-if)#exit
Spoke1(config)#router ospf 1
Spoke1(config-router)#network 192.168.123.0 0.0.0.255 area 0

Spoke2(config)#interface serial 0/0
Spoke2(config-if)#ip address 192.168.123.3 255.255.255.0
Spoke2(config-if)#encapsulation frame-relay 
Spoke2(config-if)#ip ospf network point-to-multipoint non-broadcast
Spoke2(config-if)#exit
Spoke2(config)#router ospf 1
Spoke2(config-router)#network 192.168.123.0 0.0.0.255 area 0

Just a basic configuration. You’ll have to change the OSPF network type and type in the correct network statements to become OSPF neighbors. Let’s verify the configuration:

Hub#show ip ospf neighbor 

Neighbor ID     Pri   State           Dead Time   Address         Interface
192.168.123.3     0   FULL/  -        00:01:35    192.168.123.3   Serial0/0
192.168.123.2     0   FULL/  -        00:01:56    192.168.123.2   Serial0/0

As you can see above, the Hub router has two neighbors. There is no DR/BDR election. That’s all there is to it!

Unit 1: Introduction to OSPF

Unit 2: OSPF Neighbor Adjacency

Unit 3: OSPF Network Types

Unit 4: OSPF Stub Areas

Unit 5: Advanced OSPF Topics