Chapter 28 OSPF

 

Table 86 OSPF Status: Common Output Fields (continued)

 

FIELD

DESCRIPTION

 

 

State

This field displays the state of the Switch (backup or DR (designated router)).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Priority

This field displays the priority of the Switch. This number is used in the designated

 

 

 

router election.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Designated

This field displays the router ID of the designated router.

 

 

Router

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Backup

This field displays the router ID of a backup designated router.

 

 

Designated

 

 

 

Router

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time Intervals

This field displays the time intervals (in seconds) configured.

 

 

Configured

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neighbor Count

This field displays the number of neighbor routers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adjacent

This field displays the number of neighbor router(s) that is adjacent to the Switch.

 

 

Neighbor Count

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neighbor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neighbor ID

This field displays the router ID of the neighbor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pri

This field displays the priority of the neighbor. This number is used in the

 

 

 

designated router election.

 

 

 

 

 

 

State

This field displays the state of the neighbor (backup or DR (designated router)).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dead Time

This field displays the dead time in seconds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Address

This field displays the IP address of a neighbor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interface

This field displays the MAC address of a device.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link State Database

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link ID

This field displays the ID of a router or subnet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ADV Router

This field displays the IP address of the layer-3 device that sends the LSAs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Age

This field displays the time (in seconds) since the last LSA was sent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seq #

This field displays the link sequence number of the LSA.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Checksum

This field displays the checksum value of the LSA.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link Count

This field displays the number of links in the LSA.

 

 

 

 

 

28.3 OSPF Configuration

Use this screen to activate OSPF and set general settings. Click IP Application, OSPF and the Configuration link to display the OSPF Configuration screen. See Section 28.1 on page 229 for more information on OSPF.

 

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