Administrator Guide

Layer 3 Routing Commands 1655
• metric-value—Specifies the metric of the default route advertised to the
NSSA. (Range: 1–16777214)
• metric-type-value—The metric type can be one of the following:
– A metric type of nssa-external 1
– A metric type of nssa-external 2 (default)
• role—The translator role where role is one of the following:
– always - The router assumes the role of the translator when it becomes
a border router.
– candidate - The router to participate in the translator election process
when it attains border router status.
• interval—The period of time that an elected translator continues to
perform its duties after it determines that its translator status has been
deposed by another router. (Range: 0–3600)
Default Configuration
If no metric is defined, 10 is the default configuration.
The default role is candidate. The default metric is type 2.
Command Mode
Router OSPF Configuration mode.
User Guidelines
Specifying a metric with no metric type is equivalent to specifying a metric
with a metric type of 2.
Example
The following example configures not-so-stubby-area 10 as an NSSA.
console(config)#router ospf
console(config-router)#area 10 nssa
The following example configures the metric value and type for the default
route advertised into the NSSA and configures the NSSA so that summary
LSAs are not advertised into the NSSA.
console(config-router)#area 20 nssa default-info-originate metric 250
metric-type 2 no-summary