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PowerConnect B-Series FCX Configuration Guide 971
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Displaying OSPF information
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Displaying OSPF interface information
To display OSPF interface information, enter the following command at any CLI level.
State The state of the conversation between the Layer 3 Switch and the neighbor. This field can have
one of the following values:
• Down – The initial state of a neighbor conversation. This value indicates that there has
been no recent information received from the neighbor.
• Attempt – This state is only valid for neighbors attached to non-broadcast networks. It
indicates that no recent information has been received from the neighbor.
• Init – A Hello packet has recently been seen from the neighbor. However, bidirectional
communication has not yet been established with the neighbor. (The router itself did not
appear in the neighbor's Hello packet.) All neighbors in this state (or higher) are listed in
the Hello packets sent from the associated interface.
• 2-Way – Communication between the two routers is bidirectional. This is the most
advanced state before beginning adjacency establishment. The Designated Router and
Backup Designated Router are selected from the set of neighbors in the 2-Way state or
greater.
• ExStart – The first step in creating an adjacency between the two neighboring routers. The
goal of this step is to decide which router is the master, and to decide upon the initial
Database Description (DD) sequence number. Neighbor conversations in this state or
greater are called adjacencies.
• Exchange – The router is describing its entire link state database by sending Database
Description packets to the neighbor. Each Database Description packet has a DD
sequence number, and is explicitly acknowledged. Only one Database Description packet
can be outstanding at any time. In this state, Link State Request packets can also be sent
asking for the neighbor's more recent advertisements. All adjacencies in Exchange state
or greater are used by the flooding procedure. In fact, these adjacencies are fully capable
of transmitting and receiving all types of OSPF routing protocol packets.
• Loading – Link State Request packets are sent to the neighbor asking for the more recent
advertisements that have been discovered (but not yet received) in the Exchange state.
• Full – The neighboring routers are fully adjacent. These adjacencies will now appear in
router links and network link advertisements.
Neigh Address The IP address of the neighbor:
For point-to-point links, the value is as follows:
• If the Pri field is "1", this value is the IP address of the neighbor router interface.
• If the Pri field is "3", this is the subnet IP address of the neighbor router interface.
Neigh ID The neighbor router ID.
Ev The number of times the neighbor state changed.
Opt The sum of the option bits in the Options field of the Hello packet. This information is used by
Dell technical support. Refer to Section A.2 in RFC 2178 for information about the Options field
in Hello packets.
Cnt The number of LSAs that were retransmitted.
Second-to-dead The amount of time the Dell PowerConnect device will wait for a HELLO message from each
OSPF neighbor before assuming the neighbor is dead.
TABLE 176 CLI display of OSPF neighbor information (Continued)
Field Description