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Row Heading Description
Total Displays the total number of packets the OSPF process receives/transmits.
Error Displays the error count while receiving and transmitting packets by the OSPF
process.
Hello Number of OSPF Hello packets.
DDiscr Number of database description packets.
LSReq Number of link state request packets.
LSUpd Number of link state update packets.
LSAck Number of link state acknowledgement packets.
TxQ-Len The transmission queue length.
RxQ-Len The reception queue length.
Tx-Mark The highest number mark in the transmission queue.
Rx-Mark The highest number mark in the reception queue.
Hello-Q The queue, for transmission or reception, for the hello packets.
LSR-Q The queue, for transmission or reception, for the link state request packets.
Other-Q The queue, for transmission or reception, for the link state acknowledgement,
database description, and update packets.
The following describes the error definitions for the show ip ospf statistics process-id
global command.
Error Type
Description
Intf_Down Received packets on an interface that is either down or OSPF is not enabled.
Non-Dr Received packets with a destination address of ALL_DRS even though SELF is not
a designated router.
Self-Org Receive the self originated packet.
Wrong_Len The received packet length is different to what was indicated in the OSPF header.
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.
Example
Dell#show ip ospf 10 statistics global
836 Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3)