Ospf - Motorola WiNG 5 System Reference Manual

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Maximum
Transmission
Unit (MTU)
Connection
Status
Refresh

13.3.13 OSPF

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Access Point Statistics
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a link-state interior gateway protocol (IGP). OSPF routes IP packets within a single
routing domain (autonomous system), like an enterprise LAN. OSPF gathers link state information from neighbor
routers and constructs a network topology. The topology determines the routing table presented to the Internet Layer
which makes routing decisions based solely on the destination IP address found in IP packets.
The OSPF statistics screen supports the following:
• OSPF Summary
• OSPF Neighbors
• OSPF Area Details
• OSPF Route Statistics
• OSPF Interface
• OSPF State
Displays the PPPoE client maximum transmission unit (MTU) from 500 - 1,492.
The MTU is the largest physical packet size in bytes a network can transmit.
Any messages larger than the MTU are divided into smaller packets before
being sent. A PPPoE client should be able to maintain its point-to-point
connection for this defined MTU size.
Lists the MAC address, SID, Service information MTU and status of each
route destination peer. To provide this point-to-point connection, each PPPoE
session learns the Ethernet address of a remote PPPoE client, and establishes
a session. PPPoE uses both a discover and session phase to identify a client
and establish a point-to-point connection. By using such a connection, a
Wireless WAN failover is available to maintain seamless network access if
the access point's Wired WAN were to fail.
Select the Refresh button to update the screen's statistics counters to their
latest values.