Agent based auto-configuration of OSPF networks

This paper introduces an auto-configuration system that is intended to enable people with very basic computer networking skills to set up a router network from open-source software and commodity PC hardware. Our system is composed of three subsystems: Operating System auto-installation subsystem, IP address auto-assignment subsys-tem, and OSPF auto-configuration subsystem. We have im-plemented the last one these subsystems, and present its per-formance test results. We find that the execution time of the subsystem largely depends on Perl’s SSH-module. 1