LevelOne GSW-2600TXM manual Displaying the Virtual Neighbor Table

State	The communication state for two adjacent routers:
	Down:	This is the initial state of a neighbor conversation. It Indicates
		that there has been no recent information received from the
		neighbor.
	Attempt:	This state is only valid for neighbors attached to
		non-broadcast networks. It indicates that no recent
		Information has been received from the neighbor, but that the
		router is attempting to contact the neighbor by sending Hello
		packets.
	Init:	A Hello packet has recently been seen from the neighbor.
		However, bidirectional communication has not yet been
		established with the neighbor.
	2-Way:	Communication between the two routers has been
		established. This is the most advanced state short of
		beginning adjacency establishment. Note that both the
		Designated Router and Backup Designated Router are
		selected from the set of neighbors in state 2-Way or greater.
	ExStart:	This is the first step in creating an adjacency between the two
		neighboring routers. The goal of this step is to decide which
		router is the master, and to decide upon the initial sequence
		number. Neighbor conversations in this state or greater are
		called adjacencies.
	Exchange:	The router is describing its entire link state database by
		sending database description packets to the neighbor. (Each
		database description packet has a sequence number, and is
		explicitly acknowledged.) All adjacencies in Exchange state or
		greater are used by the flooding procedure. In fact, these
		adjacencies are fully capable of transmitting and receiving all
		types of OSPF routing protocol packets.
	Loading:	Link State Request packets are sent to the neighbor asking
		for more recent advertisements that have been discovered
		(but not yet received) in the exchange state.
	Full:	The neighboring routers are fully adjacent. These adjacencies
		will now appear in router links and network links
		advertisements.
Events	The number of events encountered that cause a neighbor state change
	since boot up.

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Displaying the Virtual Neighbor Table

Virtual links can be used to link an area isolated from the backbone, to create a redundant link between any area and the backbone to help prevent partitioning, or to connect two existing backbone areas into a common backbone. Note that the processes of establishing a active link between virtual neighbors is similar to that used for

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