Administrator Guide

Error Type Description
Invld-Nbr LSA, LSR, LSU, and DDB are received from a peer which is not a neighbor peer.
Nbr-State LSA, LSR, and LSU are received from a neighbor with stats less than the loading state.
Auth-Error Simple authentication error.
MD5-Error MD5 error
Cksum-Err Checksum Error
Version Version mismatch
AreaMismatch Area mismatch
Conf-Issue The received hello packet has a different hello or dead interval than the configuration.
No-Buffer Buffer allocation failure.
Seq-no A sequence no errors occurred during the database exchange process.
Socket Socket Read/Write operation error.
Q-overflow Packets dropped due to queue overflow.
Unknown-Pkt Received packet is not an OSPF packet.
RtidZero Received router-ID (0.0.0.0) from peer.
Example
ell#show ip ospf 1 statistics
Interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/0
Error packets (Receive statistics)
Intf-Down 0 Non-Dr 0 Self-Org 0
Wrong-Len 0 Invld-Nbr 0 Nbr-State 0
Auth-Error 0 MD5-Error 0 Cksum-Err 0
Version 0 AreaMisMatch 0 Conf-Issue 0
SeqNo-Err 0 Unknown-Pkt 0 Bad-LsReq 0
RtidZero 0
Neighbor ID 1.2.1.1
Packet Statistics
Hello DDiscr LSReq LSUpd LSAck
RX 130 2 1 3 3
TX 144 2 1 3 2
Timers
Hello 6 Wait 0 Grace 0
Dead 38 Transmit 0
Queue Statistics
LSU-Q-Len 0 LSU-Q-Wmark 2
LSR-Q-Len 0 LSR-Q-Wmark 1
Dell#show ip ospf 1 statistics global
OSPF Packet Count
Total Error Hello DDiscr LSReq LSUpd LSAck
RX 114 0 105 2 1 3 3
TX 127 0 119 2 1 3 2
OSPF Global Queue Length
TxQ-Len RxQ-Len Tx-Mark Rx-Mark
Hello-Q 0 0 0 0
LSR-Q 0 0 0 0
Other-Q 0 0 0 0
Error packets (Receive statistics)
Intf-Down 0 Non-Dr 0 Self-Org 0
Wrong-Len 0 Invld-Nbr 0 Nbr-State 0
Auth-Err 0 MD5-Err 0 Chksum 0
Version 0 AreaMis 0 Conf-Issues 0
No-Buffer 0 Seq-No 0 Socket 0
Q-OverFlow 0 Unknown-Pkt 0 RtidZero 0
Error packets (Transmit statistics)
Socket Errors 0
Usage Information
The show ip ospf process-id statistics command displays the error packet count received on each
interface as:
1164 Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3)