LevelOne GTL-2691 User Manual

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| IP Routing Commands

Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2)

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value must be the same for all routers attached to an autonomous

system. (Range: 1-65535 seconds; Default: 4 x hello interval, or 40

seconds)
hello-interval seconds - Specifies the transmit delay between

sending hello packets. Setting the hello interval to a smaller value

can reduce the delay in detecting topological changes, but will

increase the routing traffic. This value must be the same for all

routers attached to an autonomous system. (Range: 1-65535

seconds; Default: 10 seconds)
retransmit-interval seconds - Specifies the interval at which the

ABR retransmits link-state advertisements (LSA) over the virtual

link. The retransmit interval should be set to a conservative value
that provides an adequate flow of routing information, but does not

produce unnecessary protocol traffic. However, note that this value

should be larger for virtual links. (Range: 1-3600 seconds; Default:

5 seconds)
transmit-delay seconds - Estimates the time required to send a

link-state update packet over the virtual link, considering the

transmission and propagation delays. LSAs have their age

incremented by this amount before transmission. This value must

be the same for all routers attached to an autonomous system.

(Range: 1-65535 seconds; Default: 1 second)
authentication - Specifies the authentication mode. If no optional

parameters follow this keyword, then plain text authentication is

used along with the password specified by the authentication-

key. If message-digest authentication is specified, then the

message-digest-key and md5 parameters must also be specified.

If the null option is specified, then no authentication is performed

on any OSPF routing protocol messages.

message-digest - Specifies message-digest (MD5)

authentication.
null - Indicates that no authentication is used.

authentication-key key - Sets a plain text password (up to 8

characters) that is used by neighboring routers on a virtual link to

generate or verify the authentication field in protocol message

headers. A separate password can be assigned to each network

interface. However, this key must be the same for all neighboring

routers on the same network (i.e., autonomous system). This key is

only used when authentication is enabled for the backbone.
message-digest-key key-id md5 key - Sets the key identifier and

password to be used to authenticate protocol messages passed

between neighboring routers and this router when using message

digest (MD5) authentication. The key-id is an integer from 0-255,

and the key is an alphanumeric string up to 16 characters long. If

MD5 authentication is used on a virtual link, then it must be enabled

on all routers within an autonomous system; and the key identifier

and key must also be the same for all routers.

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