Switch User Manual

IP routing conﬁguration using the CLI 97

The ip ospf cost command is executed in the Interface Conﬁguration

mode.

ip ospf dead-interval command

The ip ospf dead-interval command is used to conﬁgure a dead

interval for the interface. This is the interval of time that a Hello packet has

not been transmitted from this interface before its neighbors declare it down.

The syntax of the ip ospf dead-interval command is:

ip ospf dead-interval <interval>

The <interval> parameter represents the amount of time in seconds to

set this interval at. This is an integer value between 0 and 2147483647.

The ip ospf dead-interval command is executed in the Interface

Conﬁguration mode.

ip ospf hello-interval command

The ip ospf hello-interval command is used to conﬁgure the

amount of time between transmission of hello packets from this interface.

The syntax of the ip ospf hello-interval command is:

ip ospf hello-interval <interval>

The <interval> parameter is the amount of time in seconds between

hello packets. This is an integer value between 1 and 65535.

The ip ospf hello-interval command is executed in the Interface

Conﬁguration mode.

ip ospf mtu-ignore command

The ip ospf mtu-ignore command is used to instruct the interface to

ignore the packet MTU size speciﬁed in Database Descriptors.

The syntax of the ip ospf mtu-ignore command is:

ip ospf mtu-ignore enable

The ip ospf mtu-ignore command is executed in the Interface

Conﬁguration mode.

ip ospf network command

The ip ospf network command is used to deﬁne the type of OSPF

interface this interface is.

The syntax of the ip ospf network command is:

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 Series

Conﬁguration-IP Routing Protocols

NN47200-503 03.01 Standard

5.1 27 August 2007