Reference Guide

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Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2)

Overview

The and platform supports Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2) only.

Up to 16 OSPF instances can be run simultaneously on the and .

OSPF is an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP), which means that it distributes routing

information between routers in a single Autonomous System (AS). OSPF is also a

link-state protocol in which all routers contain forwarding tables derived from

information about their links to their neighbors.

OSPFv2 Commands

The Dell Force10 implementation of OSPFv2 is based on IETF RFC 2328. The

following commands enable you to configure and enable OSPFv2.

• area default-cost

• area nssa

• area range

• area stub

• area virtual-link

• auto-cost

• clear ip ospf

• clear ip ospf statistics

• debug ip ospf

• default-information originate

• default-metric

• description

• distance

• distance ospf

• distribute-list in

• distribute-list out

• enable inverse mask

• fast-convergence