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Duration: 9h 17m
Difficulty: Professional
Instructor: Keith Bogart
Videos: 21
Labs: 6
CPE Credits: 12
Published: Nov 05, 2020
Updated: Oct 30, 2025

Networking Course

IPv4 Routing With OSPF

IPv4 Routing with OSPF provides a vendor-neutral introduction to OSPFv2, helping learners understand the protocol’s core behavior before applying it to any specific networking platform. It explains how OSPF operates as a link-state routing protocol, covering key concepts such as neighbor adjacency formation, link-state database structure, area design, and the process used to calculate best paths within an IPv4 network. The course also discusses important implementation considerations that influence OSPF deployment in real environments. Through configuration examples, practical demonstrations, use cases, and packet-level analysis, learners observe how OSPF functions on platforms like Cisco IOS and VyOS. This course is designed for network administrators and engineers who require hands-on understanding of OSPF for deployment, troubleshooting, and preparation for advanced routing certifications.

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Instructor

Keith Bogart

Course Instructor

Keith started his networking career as customer service representative at Cisco Systems in 1996. His desire to learn more soon led him to a position as a Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) engineer on the “Dial-Access” team, and within six months he had obtained his Dial-ISP CCIE. He later became a network consulting engineer and obtained his CCNA certification while teaching the technologies to Cisco employees during his lunch breaks. Keith was the first instructor on Cisco’s TAC Training team, where he taught a wide range of internetworking topics and later developed and taught other courses such as routing protocols, LAN switching, MPLS, 802.1x, and CCNA. After almost 17 years with Cisco, Keith joined a small startup and focused on 802.11 Wi-Fi technologies, during which time he obtained his CWNA certification. He is now very happy to be working as an instructor for Routing & Switching. Keith lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, son, and daughter. When he is not teaching Bootcamps, Keith can be found at home with his family, reading, or working in the yard.

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