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Cyclades-PR4000

OSPF Menu (continued)

External Metric	Defines the metric that will be advertised by OSPF.
External Metric Type	For Type 1, the total metric of this route is composed of the internal metric (inside the
	autonomous system) and the external metric (provided in the previous parameter). For
	Type 2, the total metric of this route is the value provided in the previous parameter.
Parameters that apply only when OSPF on This Interface is Enable or Enable Inactive.
Area ID	Identifies the area to which the interface belongs. Areas are created here, then later
	defined in CONFIG=>IP=>OSPF =>AREA. Has the format of an IP address, but is not
	linked to any IP address in the system. Small OSPF networks will typically have only
	one area (the backbone area represented by 0.0.0.0).
Router Priority	Priority used by OSPF in multicast networks to elect the designated router. A priority of
	1 will make this router the most likely to be chosen. A priority of 2 will make it second
	most likely. Set it to 0 (zero) if this router should never be the designated router.
Transit Delay in	Estimated transit time in seconds to route a packet through this interface. Use the
Seconds	preset value (1) or increase the number for slow links
Retransmit Interval *	Time in seconds between link-state advertisement retransmissions for adjacencies
	belonging to this interface.
Hello Interval *	Time in seconds between the hello packets on this interface.
Dead Interval *	Inactivity time (seconds) before a neighbor router is considered down.
Poll Interval *	Time in seconds between the hello packets sent to an inactive, non-broadcast, multi-
	access neighbor.
Password *	String of up to 8 characters used to authenticate OSPF packages. The use of this
	password is enabled in CONFIG=>IP=>OSPF=>AREA=>AUTHENTICATION TYPE
Metric	Defines the cost for normal service. For consistent routing, this parameter should be
	determined in the same manner for all routers in the OSPF Area. Normally, metric cost
	is defined as an inverse function of interface throughput (e.g. 1 for 100Mbps, 10 for
	10Mbps, 65 for T1, 1785 for 56kbps, etc).
Advertise Secondary	Causes the router to advertise additional addresses assigned to this interface. These
IP Address	are configured in CONFIG => INTERFACE =><LINK> =>NETWORK PROTOCOL =>IP.

* Inside a given area, these 4 parameters should be the same for all routers.

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