OSPF Configuration Page Options

Area Type

Displays the area type selected.

Version

Displays the version of the interface selected (OSPF for IPv4 and OSPFv3 for IPv6).

Import Policy

Displays the import policy selected.

Note: This option is not available for tenant users.

Routing Instance

Specifies the name of the routing instance.

Note: This option is not available for tenant users.

Select the routing instance from the list or select Add to create a new routing instance.

For more information on routing instance, see Routing Instances Configuration Page Options section.

Router ID

Specifies the ID of the routing device.

Enter the ID of the routing device.

Area Range

Displays a range of IP addresses for the summary link state advertisements (LSAs) to be sent within an area.

Select an option:

1. To add an area range form:

   1. Click +.

      The Create Area Range form page appears.

   2. Enter the area range address.

      Note: For OSPF, enter an IPv4 address and for OSPFv3 enter an IPv6 address.

   3. Enter the subnet mask area address.

      Note: This option is available only for IPv4 address.

   4. Select a value to override the metric for the IP address range.

      Range: 1025 - 65534.

   5. Select Restrict Advertisements of this area range to specify that the routes contained within a summary must not be displayed.

   6. Select Enforce exact match for advertisements of this area range to specify that the summary of a route must be advertised only when an exact match is made within the configured summary range.

   7. Click OK.

2. To edit the selected are range:

   1. Select the existing area range.

   2. Click the pencil icon to edit the selected area range.

   3. Click OK.

3. To delete the area range:

   1. Select the area range that you want to delete.

   2. Click the delete icon.

      A message appears to confirm if you want to proceed with the deletion of the selected area range.

   3. Click Yes to delete the selected area range.

No Summaries (Totally Stubby area)

Note: This option is applicable for non-zero area and it is not applicable for area zero.

Specifies whether summaries is enabled or disabled.

Enable or disable the summaries.

Note: This option can be configured when area-type is nssa or stub.

Interface type

Specifies the interfaces to be associated with the OSPF configuration. Options available are:

• None—No interface.

• nbma—Nonbroadcast multiaccess (NBMA) interface.

  Note: This option is not available for OSPFv3.

• p2mp—Point-to-multipoint interface.

• p2p—Point-to-point interface.

• p2mp-over-lan—Point-to-multipoint over LAN mode.

  Note: This option is not available for OSPF.

Select the interface from the list.

Passive mode

Specifies the passive mode.

Enable if you want the passive mode.

Note: You can enable this option only if Secondary option is disabled and vice-versa.

Bidirectional Forward Detection

Specifies the bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) protocol version that you want to detect.

Enable or disable the bidirectional forward detection.

• BFD Version—Select the bidirectional forward detection version form the list:

  • None—No BFD version is used.

  • automatic—Autodetects the BFD protocol version.

  • BFD Version 0—Uses BFD protocol version 0.

  • BFD Version 1—Uses BFD protocol version 1.

• Minimum Interval—Enter the minimum interval value for BFD in milliseconds. Range: 1 through 255,000.

• Minimum Receive Interval—Enter the minimum receive interval value. Range: 1 through 255,000.

Link protection

Creates a backup loop-free alternate path to the primary next hop for all destination routes that traverse the protected interface.

Enable or disable this option.

Note: You can either enable Link protection or Node Link protection at a time. For example, if you enable Link protection, then Node Link protection is automatically disabled.

Secondary

Specifies an interface to belong to another OSPF area.

Enable or disable this option.

Note: You can enable this option only if Passive Mode is disabled and IPSec security association is not configured and vice-versa.

MD5 Authentication Key

Note: This option is not available for OSPFv3.

Specifies an MD5 authentication key (password).

Click + and enter the following details:

• MD5 ID—MD5 key identifier.

  Range: 0 through 255.

• Key—One or more MD5 key strings.

  The MD5 key values can be from 1 through 16 characters long. Characters can include ASCII strings. If you include spaces, enclose all characters in quotation marks (“ ”).

• Start Time—MD5 start time.

Import Policy

Specifies one or more policies to control which routes learned from an area are used to generate summary link-state advertisements (LSAs) into other areas. The options available are:

• Add—Adds an import policy.

• Move up—Moves the selected policy up the list of policies.

• Move down—Moves the selected policy up the list of policies down.

• Remove— Removes the import policy.

Select an option.

Number of files

Specifies the maximum number of trace files.

Enter the filename.

World Readable

Specifies whether the trace file can be read by any user or not.

Enable this option to allow any user to read the file.

Disable this option to prevent all users from reading the file.

Available Flags

Specifies the available trace operation to be performed.

Select available flags and move to Selected column using the right arrow.