
Enterasys Xpedition User Reference Manual 137
Configuring OSPF
Configuring Autonomous System External (ASE) Link Advertisements
Because of the nature of OSPF, the rate at which ASEs are flooded may need to be limited.
The following parameters can be used to adjust those rate limits. These parameters specify
the defaults used when importing OSPF ASE routes into the routing table and exporting
routes from the routing table into OSPF ASEs.
To specify AS external link advertisements parameters, enter the following commands in
the Configure mode:
Configuring OSPF for Different Types of Interfaces
The Enterasys Xpedition can run OSPF over a variety of physical connections: Serial
connections, LAN interfaces, ATM, or Frame Relay. The OSPF configuration supports four
different types of interfaces.
• LAN. An example of a LAN interface is an Ethernet. The XP will use multicast packets
on LAN interfaces to reach other OSPF routers. By default, an IP interface attached to
a VLAN that contains LAN ports is treated as an OSPF broadcast network.
• Point-to-Point. A point-to-point interface can be a serial line using PPP. By default, an
IP interface associated with a serial line that is using PPP is treated as an OSPF point-
to-point network. If an IP interface that is using PPP is to be treated as an OSPF
broadcast network, then use the type broadcast option of the interface create
command.
• Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA). An example of a NBMA network is a fully-
meshed Frame Relay or ATM network with virtual circuits. Because there is no general
multicast for these networks, each neighboring router that is reachable over the NBMA
network must be specified, so that routers can poll each other. The XP will unicast
packets to the routers in the NBMA network.
• Point-to-Multipoint (PMP). Point-to-multipoint connectivity is used when the network
does not provide full connectivity to all routers in the network. As in the case of NBMA
Specifies how often a batch of
ASE link state advertisements
will be generated and flooded
into OSPF. The default is 1 time
per second.
ospf set export-interval <num>
Specifies how many ASEs will
be generated and flooded in
each batch. The default is 250.
ospf set export-limit <num>
Specifies AS external link
advertisement default
parameters.
ospf set ase-defaults {[preference <num>]| [cost
<num>]|[type <num>] |
[inherit-metric]}
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