Asante Technologies 40240/40480-10G User Manual
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The following shows output when using the external keyword.
Console#show ip ospf database external
OSPF Router with id(192.168.5.1) (Autonomous system 5)
Displaying AS External Link States
LS age: 433
Options: (No TOS-capability)
LS Type: AS External Link
Link State ID: 10.1.1.253 (External Network Number)
Advertising Router: 10.1.2.254
LS Sequence Number: 80000002
LS Checksum: 0x51E2
Length: 32
Network Mask: 255.255.0.0
Metric Type: 2 (Larger than any link state path)
Metric: 1
Forward Address: 0.0.0.0
External Route Tag: 0
Console#
Table 42-14 show ip ospf external - display description
Field Description
OSPF Router id
Router ID
LS age
Age of LSA (in seconds)
Options
Optional capabilities associated with the LSA
LS Type
AS External Links - LSA describes routes to destinations outside the AS (including
default external routes for the AS)
Link State ID
IP network number (External Network Number)
Advertising Router
Advertising router ID
LS Sequence Number
Sequence number of LSA (used to detect older duplicate LSAs)
LS Checksum
Checksum of the complete contents of the LSA
Length
The length of the LSA in bytes
Network Mask
Address mask for the network
Metric Type
Type 1 or Type 2 external metric (see “redistribute” on page 42-25)
Metrics
Cost of the link
Forward Address
Forwarding address for data to be passed to the advertised destination
(If set to 0.0.0.0, data is forwarded to the originator of the advertisement)
External Route Tag
32-bit field attached to each external route
(Not used by OSPF; may be used to communicate other information between
boundary routers as defined by specific applications)
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Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
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