Dell S3048-ON, Configuration Manual

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• A not-so-stubby area (NSSA) can import AS external route information and send it to the backbone. It cannot receive external AS
information from the backbone or other areas.
• Totally stubby areas are referred to as no summary areas in the Dell Networking OS.
Networks and Neighbors
As a link-state protocol, OSPF sends routing information to other OSPF routers concerning the state of the links between them. The state
(up or down) of those links is important.
Routers that share a link become neighbors on that segment. OSPF uses the Hello protocol as a neighbor discovery and keep alive
mechanism. After two routers are neighbors, they may proceed to exchange and synchronize their databases, which creates an adjacency.
Router Types
Router types are attributes of the OSPF process.
A given physical router may be a part of one or more OSPF processes. For example, a router connected to more than one area, receiving
routing from a border gateway protocol (BGP) process connected to another AS acts as both an area border router and an autonomous
system router.
Each router has a unique ID, written in decimal format (A.B.C.D). You do not have to associate the router ID with a valid IP address.
However, to make troubleshooting easier, Dell Networking recommends that the router ID and the router’s IP address reflect each other.
The following example shows different router designations.
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