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Metric
A value between 1 and 65535 that will be advertised for the route.
Area ID
A 32-bit number in the form of an IP address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) that uniquely identifies the
OSPF area in the OSPF domain.
OSPF Default Information Originate Settings
To access the OSPF Default Information Originate Settings, click L3 features > OSPF > OSPF Default Information Originate
Settings.
Figure 8- 43. OSPF Default Information Originate Settings window
The following parameters may be configured.
Parameter Description
Status
Select Enabled from the drop-down menu to allow the generation and advertisement of the default
route into OSPF. Select Disabled to disable.
Always
Choose Enabled from the drop-down menu to specify that the advertising router should advertise
its default route into OSPF, if it has one set in its configuration. If the advertising router doesn’t
have a default-route it should generate a default route and advertise it into OSPF. If Disabled is
chosen from the drop-down menu, the default route will only be advertised when the default route
exists in the redistributed routes.
Type
This parameter specifies the type of AS external route.
OSPF supports two types of external metrics. Choose the OSPF Default Information Originate type
from the drop-down menu:
ExtType1
ExtType2
Metric (0-
16777214)
Specifies the cost of default route to be advertised into OSPF. The range is 0 to 16777214. The
metric value 0 will be set in OSPF as the metric value 20.
Click Apply to implement changes made.