The OSPF Interface Configuration dialog box displays the interface configuration details of OSPF.
For CiscoView versions earlier than 5.2:
Right-click the device. Then select Configure, or double-click the device.
Select Protocols from the Category list.
Select OSPF from the SelectProtocol list. Then click the Details button. The OSPF Configuration dialog box appears.
Select Interface Configuration from the Category list.
For CiscoView version 5.2 and later:
Right-click the device. Then select Configure, or double-click the device.
Select Protocols from the Category list.
Select OSPF from the SelectProtocol list. Then click the Details button. The OSPF Configuration dialog box appears.
Note: The left frame in the dialog box displays the categories and the right frame displays the category details or a table. If a table is displayed, the variable on which the table is indexed and the key values of the index are listed below the category. Double-click the category to view the table and double-click a key value to view details of a particular row in the table.
Multiple indexes for a table, if any, are listed below the category in a nested manner. Select a key value to view the rows of the table about that value. Select a key value of the lowest indexing variable to view the details of that particular row.
Select Interface Configuration from the left pane.
The following information appears:
Interface
IP Address (ospfIfIpAddress)
Interface
without IP Address (ospfAddressLessIf)
Interface
connected Area ID (ospfIfAreaId)
Interface
Admin. Status (ospfIfAdminStat)
Priority
for DR election (ospfIfRtrPriority)
Transit
Delay for link-state Update (ospfIfTransitDelay)
LSA
Retransmission Interval (ospfIfRetransInterval)
Hello
Packet Transmission Interval (ospfIfHelloInterval)
Dead
Interval for Hello packets (ospfIfRtrDeadInterval)
Interval
- Poll an inactive NBMA (ospfIfPollInterval)
IP
Address of Designated Router (ospfIfDesignatedRouter)
IP
Address of Backup DR (ospfIfBackupDesignatedRouter)
Authentication
Key (ospfIfAuthKey)
OSPF Address Range Configuration
OSPF ToS Metrics for Nonvirtual Interface
OSPF Virtual Neighbor Configuration
OSPF Virtual Interface Configuration
IP address of this OSPF interface.
Used to ease the occurrances of addressed and addressless interfaces; the object takes the value 0 on interfaces with IP addresses, and the corresponding value of ifIndex for interfaces having no IP address.
32-bit integer that uniquely identifies the area to which the interface connects. Area ID 0.0.0.0 is used for the OSPF backbone.
Type of OSPF interface.
By default, this field may be intuited from the corresponding value of ifType. Broadcast LANs, such as Ethernet and IEEE 802.5, take the value broadcast (1), X.25, Frame Relay, and similar technologies take the value nbma (2), and links that are definitively point to point take the value pointToPoint (3).
Administrative status of the OSPF interface. Administrative status can be:
Value |
Description |
enabled |
Neighbor relationships may be formed on the interface, and the interface is advertised as an internal route to some area |
disabled |
Interface is external to OSPF |
Priority of the interface used in multiaccess networks. It is used in the designated router election algorithm IDs as tie breakers.
Estimated number of seconds it takes to transmit a link-state update packet over the interface.
Interval, in seconds, between link-state advertisement retransmissions for neighbouring packets belonging to the interface. This value is also used when retransmitting database description and link-state request packets.
Length of time, in seconds, between the Hello packets that the router sends on the interface. This value must be the same for all routers attached to a common network.
Number of seconds that a router's Hello packets are not seen before it's neighbors declare the router down. This should be some multiple of the hello interval. This value must be the same for all routers attached to a common network.
Larger time interval, in seconds, between the sending of hello packets to an inactive non-broadcast multi-access neighbor.
State of the OSPF interface. Interface state can be:
Value |
Description |
1 |
down |
2 |
loopback |
3 |
waiting |
4 |
pointToPoint |
5 |
designatedRouter |
6 |
backupDesignatedRouter |
7 |
otherDesignatedRouter |
IP address of the designated router.
IP address of the backup designated router.
Key used for authorization. If the area authorization type is simplePassword, and the key length is shorter than 8 octets, the agent left-adjusts and zero-fills to 8 octets.
When read, ospfIfAuthKey always returns an octet string of length zero.