Administering Areas - 3Com CoreBuilder 2500 User Manual

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Administering
Areas
A
DMINISTERING
This chapter describes how to set up your CoreBuilder
use the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol to route packets.
Use this chapter to perform the following tasks:

Administering Areas

Setting the Default Route Metric
Configuring OSPF Interfaces
Displaying the Link State Database
Administering Neighbors
Setting OSPF Router IDs
Administering Memory Partitions
Administering Stub Default Metrics
Administering Virtual Links
Displaying OSPF Statistics
For more information about how OSPF works, see Chapter 7 "Routing
with OSPF."
An OSPF area is a logical, user-defined group of networks, hosts, and
directly attached routers that use a common copy of the OSPF routing
algorithm. Different areas run individual copies of the OSPF algorithm and
maintain unique routing databases.
With the commands in this section, you define, remove, and modify areas
as well as display existing areas. After you define an area with the
command, you add network segments and interfaces to the area with the
area command and the
addRange
OSPF R
OUTING
™
command.
interface areaID
2500 system to
define