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Interfaces tab fields


Field Description
IpAddress
IP address of the current OSPF interface
AreaId
Dotted decimal value to designate the OSPF area name.
For VLANs keeping the default area setting on the interface causes the LSDB to be inconsistent.
Note: The area name is not related to an IP address. You can use any value for the OSPF area name (for example, 1.1.1.1 or 200.200.200.200).
AdminStat
Current administrative state of the OSPF interface (enabled or disabled).
State
This is the current state of the OSPF interface. One of the following values will be listed:
  • down
  • loopback
  • waiting
  • pointToPoint
  • designatedRouter
  • backupDesignatedRouter
  • otherDesignatedRouter
Rtrpriority
OSPF priority for the interface during the election process for the designated router. The interface with the highest priority number is the designated router. The interface with the second-highest priority becomes the backup designated router. If the priority is 0, the interface cannot become the designated router or the backup. The priority is used only during election of the designated router and backup designated router. The range is 0 to 255. The default is 1.
DesignatedRouter
IP address of the router elected by the Hello Protocol to send link state advertisements.
BackupDesignatedRouter
IP address of the router elected by the Hello Protocol to send link state advertisements.
Type
This is the type of OSPF interface. Valid value for this field is:
  • broadcast
AuthType
Type of authentication required for the interface.
  • none = No authentication required.
  • simple password = All OSPF updates received by the interface must contain the authentication key specified in the interface AuthKey field.
  • MD5 authentication = All OSPF updates received by the interface must contain the md5 key.
Note: this field is not supported using Device Manager.
AuthKey
This field is required when simple password authentication is specified in the interface AuthType field. (up to 8 characters)
HelloInterval
Length of time, in seconds, between hello packets. This value must be the same for all routers attached to a common network. The default is 10 seconds.
TransitDelay
Length of time, in seconds between 1 and 3600, required to transmit an LSA update packet over the interface. The default is one second.
RetransInterval
Length of time, in seconds between 1 and 3600, required between LSA retransmissions. The default is 5 seconds.
RtrDeadInterval
Interval used by adjacent routers to determine if the router has been removed from the network. This interval must be identical on all routers on the subnet and a minimum of four times the Hello Interval. To avoid interpretability issues, the RtrDeadInterval value for the OSPF interface needs to match with the RtrDeadInterval value for the OSPF virtual interface.The default is 40 seconds.
PollInterval
Length of time, in seconds, between hello packets sent to an inactive OSPF router. The default is 120 seconds.
Events
Number of state changes or error events that have occurred through all interfaces.
MulticastForwarding
The way multicasts should forwarded on this interface not forwarded, forwarded as multicast, or forwarded as unicasts. Multicasting is not meaningful on point to point interfaces, and setting this field to 0 effectively disables all multicast forwarding.
Demand
Indicates whether Demand OSPF procedures should be performed on this interface. The default value is false.

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