Enabling ospfv3, Prerequisites, Configuring ospfv3 area parameters – H3C Technologies H3C S7500E Series Switches User Manual

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Enabling OSPFv3

Prerequisites

z

Make neighboring nodes accessible with each other at the network layer.

z

Enable IPv6 packet forwarding

Enabling OSPFv3

To enable an OSPFv3 process on a router, you need to enable the OSPFv3 process globally, assign

the OSPFv3 process a router ID, and enable the OSPFv3 process on related interfaces.

A router ID uniquely identifies a router within an AS. Therefore, you need to specify a unique router ID

for each OSPFv3 router within the AS to ensure normal operation. Note that if a router runs multiple

OSPFv3 processes, you need to specify a unique router ID for each process.

An OSPFv3 process ID has only local significance. Therefore, process 1 on a router can exchange

packets with process 2 on another router.

Follow these steps to enable OSPFv3:

To do…

Use the command…

Remarks

Enter system view

system-view

Enable an OSPFv3 process and

enter its view

ospfv3 [ process-id ]

Required

By default, no OSPFv3 process is

enabled.

Specify a router ID

router-id router-id

Required

Enter interface view

interface interface-type

interface-number

Enable an OSPFv3 process on the

interface

ospfv3 process-id area area-id

[ instance instance-id ]

Required

Not enabled by default

Configuring OSPFv3 Area Parameters

The stub area and virtual link features of OSPFv3 are the same as OSPFv2.

Splitting an OSPFv3 AS into multiple areas reduces the number of LSAs and extends OSPFv3

applications. For those non-backbone areas residing on the AS boundary, you can configure them as

stub areas to further reduce the size of routing tables and the number of LSAs.

Non-backbone areas exchange routing information via the backbone area. Therefore, the backbone

and non-backbone areas, including the backbone itself must be contiguous. In practice, necessary

physical links may not be available for such connectivity. You can configure virtual links to address the

problem.

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