OSPFv2 Single-Area Fundamentals: Adjacency and Area 0 Basics

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Hands-on CCNA beginner lab: build a 3-router chain with end hosts, enable OSPFv2 area 0, form full adjacencies, advertise loopbacks and LANs, verify route propagation end-to-end, and intentionally create then resolve an OSPF area mismatch on a transit segment.

Learning objectives

• Enable OSPFv2 process 1 on all routers with a stable router-id sourced from Loopback0.
• Advertise loopbacks and all connected LAN/transit networks in area 0 using correct wildcard masks.
• Suppress OSPF hellos on all interfaces by default, then re-enable them only on the router-to-router transit links.
• Verify neighbor adjacency states, LSDB sync, and route propagation across the chain.
• Reproduce an OSPF area mismatch on a transit link, analyze symptoms, and correct the configuration.

Troubleshooting focus

• Verify every link's interface status and IP addressing (`show ip interface brief`) and correct any interface that is down or misaddressed.
• Confirm each device's running configuration matches the lab objective, and bring any interface, route, or service that is not in its expected state back to health.
• Trace end-to-end reachability with ping/traceroute and isolate the first hop where forwarding fails.