Configuring OSPF
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Before configuring any global interface, it is necessary that at least one
interface be configured for OSPF.
11.2.1 Per-interface OSPF configuration
The per-interface OSPF configuration is done under Config->Interface-
><Interface>->Routing Protocol->OSPF. When this option is selected you will
be asked for the following parameters (not all parameters are necessarily asked
for all interfaces):
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Enable, Enable Inactive, Disable. This parameter indicates
whether or not OSPF is enabled in this interface. If you Enable it,
additional OSPF parameters will be requested. If you Disable it,
OSPF is disabled for that interface and any other OSPF parameter
associated with it is discarded. Enable Inactive allows you to
disable an OSPF for one interface but to store all the OSPF
parameters. This last option is useful to temporarily disable an
interface for OSPF or to add a new interface to a system that is
already running (first, configure all the parameters with the interface
Enabled Inactive. Once the configuration is completed and double-
checked, simply change it to Enable).
If you disable OSPF on the interface, you will be asked whether this non-OSPF
interface should or not be advertised to the OSPF network as an external route
(and what metric is to be used).
If you enable OSPF on the interface, these parameters will be requested:
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Area ID. Identifies the area to which the interface belongs. Four
decimal numbers separated by dots are used to represent OSPF
areas. Small OSPF networks will typically have only one area (the
backbone area represented by 0.0.0.0 – default).
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Router priority. Indicates the router priority. This OSPF parameter
is used in multi-access for the election of the designated router. The
priority ranges from 0 to 255 and the default is 1. Priority 0 will
make the router ineligible to be the designated router in a multi-
access media network.
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Transit delay in seconds. Transit time in seconds to route a
packet over the interface. This parameter is the estimated time to
route a packet through the interface. Use the default (1) or increase
the number for slow links.
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Retransmit interval in seconds. Time in seconds between link-
state advertisement retransmissions for adjacencies belonging to
this interface. The default is 5 seconds.