Users Guide

You can also specify the time (in seconds) that the router waits for the BGP routing table
to converge before it stops advertising the maximum cost in LSAs and advertises the
router’s currently congured OSPF cost. Range: 5 to 86400 seconds.
Defaults Not Congured.
Command Modes
ROUTER OSPF
Command History
Version Description
9.8(1.0) Introduced on the Z9100-ON.
9.1.(0.0) Introduced on the S4810 and Z9000.
8.4.2.5 Introduced on C-Series and E-Series TeraScale.
8.4.1.3 Introduced on E-Series ExaScale.
Usage Information
When you bring a new router onto an OSPF network, you can congure the router to function as a stub router by
globally reconguring the OSPF link cost so that other routers do not use a path that forwards trac destined to
other networks through the new router for a specied time until the router’s switching and routing functions are up
and running, and the routing tables in network routers have converged.
By using the max-metric router-lsa command, you force the link cost of all OSPF non-stub links to the maximum
link cost (65535). The advertisement of this maximum metric causes other routers to assign a cost to the new
router that is higher than the cost of using an alternate path. Because of the high cost assigned to paths that pass
through the new router, other routers will not use a path through the router as a transit path to forward trac to
other networks.
Use the max-metric router-lsa command to gracefully shut down or reload a router without dropping packets
destined for other networks.
NOTE: If you enter the max-metric router-lsa command without an option (on-startup announce-time
or on-startup wait-for-bgp [ wait-time ]), the maximum metric of 65535 is always announced in LSAs
sent by the router.
Example
max-metric router-lsa
Dell(conf)#router ospf 10
Dell(conf-router_ospf)#log-adjacency-changes
Dell(conf-router_ospf)#network 4.1.1.0/24 area 0
Dell(conf-router_ospf)#network 1.1.1.0/24 area 1
Dell(conf-router_ospf)#max-metric router-lsa on-startup wait-for-bgp
Dell(conf-router_ospf)#exit
Dell(conf)#show ip ospf
Routing Process ospf 10 with ID 100.1.1.1 Virtual router default-vrf
Supports only single TOS (TOS0) routes
It is an Area Border Router
Originating router lsas with maximum metric
Time remaining 00:07:07
Condition : On-Startup while BGP is converging for 600 secs. State : Active
SPF schedule delay 5 secs, Hold time between two SPFs 10 secs
Convergence Level 0
Min LSA origination 5 secs, Min LSA arrival 1 secs
Number of area in this router is 2, normal 2 stub 0 nssa 0
Area BACKBONE (0)
Number of interface in this area is 1
SPF algorithm executed 3 times
Area ranges are
Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3) 1141