Settings | Guidelines |
Router | 32-bit number that sets the router-ID of the OSPF process. The router ID uses dotted decimal notation. The router-ID must be an IP address of the router, and it must be unique within the entire OSPF domain to the OSPF speaker. |
Default Metric | The default is 10. |
Distance | The default is 110. |
Default Information Originate | • Enable—Originate an AS-External (type-5) LSA describing a default route into all external routing capable areas of the specified metric and metric type. • Always—The default is always advertised, even when there is no default present in the routing table. • Disable |
Default Information Metric | The default is -1. |
Default Information Metric Type | • 1 • 2 |
Redistribute Connected | Enable/disable to redistribute connected routes into OSPF, with the metric type and metric set if specified. Redistributed routes are distributed into OSPF as Type-5 External LSAs into links to areas. |
Redistribute Static | Enable/disable to redistribute static routes into OSPF, with the metric type and metric set if specified. Redistributed routes are distributed into OSPF as Type-5 External LSAs into links to areas. |
Network | |
Prefix | Address/mask notation to specify the subnet. |
Area | 32-bit number that identifies the OSPF area. An OSPF area is a smaller part of the larger OSPF AS. Areas are used to limit the link-state updates that are sent out. The flooding used for these updates would overwhelm a large network, so it is divided into these smaller areas for manageability. |
Interface | |
Name | Configuration name. Valid characters are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, _, and -. No spaces. After you initially save the configuration, you cannot edit the name. |
Interface | Select the interface to enable OSPF for it. |
MTU Ignore | Enable/disable to ignore the interface MTU. Disabled by default. |
Network Type | • Broadcast • Point to Point • Point to Multipoint |
Retransmit Interval | Interval for retransmitting Database Description and Link State Request packets. The default is 5 seconds. |
Transmit Delay | Increment LSA age by this value when transmitting. The default is 1 second. |
Cost | Set link cost for the specified interface. The cost value is set to router-LSA's metric field and used for SPF calculation. The default is 0. |
Priority | The router with the highest priority will be more eligible to become Designated Router. Setting the value to 0 makes the router ineligible to become Designated Router. The default is 1. |
Dead Interval | Number of seconds for RouterDeadInterval timer value used for Wait Timer and Inactivity Timer. This value must be the same for all routers attached to a common network. The default is 40 seconds. |
Hello Interval | Number of seconds between hello packets sent on the configured interface. This value must be the same for all routers attached to a common network. The default is 10 seconds. |
HA Router | |
Router | You use the HA Router list configuration in an HA active-active deployment. On each HA cluster node, add an HA Router configuration that includes an entry for each cluster node. When the appliance is in standalone mode, it uses the primary OSPF Router ID; when it is in HA mode, it uses the HA Router list ID. Specify a 32-bit number that sets the router-ID of the OSPF process. The router ID uses dotted decimal notation. The router-ID must be an IP address of the router, and it must be unique within the entire OSPF domain to the OSPF speaker. |
Node | HA Node ID (0-7). |