OSPF Neighbor States & OSPF Neighbor Forming Process Down State The diagram below shows the different states OSPF routers will go through when discovering their OSPF neighbors:įigure 1.
Following are the OSPF States we'll be examining: When OSPF forms adjacency with neighbors, the connection goes through several states before the routers are fully adjacent with each other, this section describes each state in detail. Part 6: OSPF LSA Types - Purpose and Function of Every OSPF LSA.