Service Manual

Error Type Description
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.
Example
Dell#show ip ospf 10 statistics global
OSPF Packet Count
Total Error Hello DDiscr LSReq LSUpd
LSAck
RX 34 0 26 2 1 3
2
TX 34 0 25 3 1 3
2
OSPF Global Queue Length
TxQ-Len RxQ-Len Tx-Mark Rx-Mark
Hello-Q 0 0 1 1
LSR-Q 0 0 1 1
Other-Q 0 0 2 2
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
Dell#
Usage Information
The show ip ospf process-id statistics command displays the error packet count received on each
interface as:
The hello-timer remaining value for each interface
The wait-timer remaining value for each interface
The grace-timer remaining value for each interface
The packet count received and transmitted for each neighbor
Dead timer remaining value for each neighbor
Transmit timer remaining value for each neighbor
904 Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3)