Setup guide
Property Description
neighbor-id (IP address; default: 0.0.0.0) - specifies router-id of the neighbour
transit-area (name; default: (unknown)) - a non-backbone area the two routers have in common
Notes
Virtual links can not be estabilished through stub areas
Example
To add a virtual link with the 10.0.0.201 router through the ex area, do the following:
[admin@Wandy] routing ospf virtual-link> add neighbor-id=10.0.0.201 \
\... transit-area=ex
[admin@Wandy] routing ospf virtual-link> print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid
# NEIGHBOR-ID TRANSIT-AREA
0 10.0.0.201 ex
[admin@Wandy] routing ospf virtual-link>
Neighbours
routing ospf neigbor
Description
The submenu provides an access to the list of OSPF neighbors, id est the routers adjacent to the
current router, and supplies brief statistics.
Property Description
router-id (read-only: IP address) - the router-id parameter of the neighbour
address (read-only: IP address) - appropriate IP address of the neighbour
priority (read-only: integer) - the priority of the neigbour which is used in designated router
elections via Hello protocol on this network
state (read-only: Down | Attempt | Init | 2-Way | ExStart | Exchange | Loading | Full) - the state of
the connection:
• Down - the connection is down
• Attempt - the router is sending Hello protocol packets
• Init - a Hello packet received from a neighbour
• 2-Way - bidirectional communication estabilished
• ExStart - negotiating Exchange state
• ExStart - exchanging with whole Link-State DataBase
• Loading - receiving information from the neighbour
• Full - the link-state databases are completely synchronized
state-changes (read-only: integer) - number of connection state changes
ls-retransmits (read-only: integer) - number of link-state retransmits
ls-requests (read-only: integer) - number of link-state requests
db-summaries (read-only: integer) - number of records in link-state database advertised by the
neighbour