576CHAPTER 19: OPEN SHORTEST PATH FIRST (OSPF)

Fields in the IP OSPF Virtual Links Detail Display

Field

Description

 

 

Cost

Cost of sending a packet over the virtual link, expressed in the

 

link state metric

Indx

Index number of the virtual link

Local Address

Address of the local router

Remote Address

Address of the remote router

State

State of the virtual link

 

Fields in the IP OSPF Virtual Links Neighbor Display

Field

Description

 

 

Indx

Index number for the interface to which a neighbor belongs

ReqQ

Number of LSAs that are being requested from the neighbor

RxQ

Number of LSAs that are in the local retransmit queue to the

 

neighbor

State

Neighbor’s adjacency:

 

Down — No recent data received from neighbor, connection

 

is down.

 

Attempt — Only used on nonbroadcast networks. No recent

 

data received from neighbor (will attempt to contact).

 

Init — Have recently seen Hello packet from neighbor;

 

however, two-way communication has not been established.

 

Two-way— Bidirectional communication has been

 

established.

 

ExStart — Taking initial step to create adjacency between

 

neighboring routers.

 

Exchange — Database descriptions are being exchanged.

 

Loading — LSA databases are being exchanged.

 

Full — Neighboring routers are fully adjacent.

SumQ

Number of LSAs in LSA summary queue for the neighbor

 

 

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