Nortel Networks NN47200-503 manual Virtual If tab, Virtual Interface fields Field Description

240IP Routing Configuration and Management

Step Action

1Select IP Routing > OSPF from the Device Manager menu. The OSPF dialog opens.

2Select the Virtual If tab. The Virtual If tab is illustrated below.

Virtual If tab

3Use the fields on the tab, as described in the following table, to view the Virtual Interface information.

Virtual Interface fields

Field	Description
AreaId	Specifies the unique ID of the area connected to the
	interface. TIP: an area ID of 0.0.0.0 indicates the
	OSPF backbone.
Neighbor	Specifies ID of adjacent, reachable routers.
TransitDelay	Specifies the estimated number of seconds required
	to transmit a link state update packet over the virtual
	interface. The transit delay is expressed as an integer
	between 0 and 3600.
RetransInterval	Specifies the number of seconds between link state
	advertisement retransmissions for adjacencies
	belonging to the virtual interface. The retransmit
	interval is also used to transmit database description
	and link state request packets. The retransmit interval
	is expressed as an integer between 0 and 3600.
HelloInterval	Specifies the interval, in seconds, between the Hello
	packets sent by the router on the virtual interface.
	TIP: This value must be the same for all routers
	attached to a common network. The hello interval is
	expressed as an integer between 1 and 65535.

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 Series

Configuration-IP Routing Protocols

NN47200-503 03.01 Standard

5.127 August 2007

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