Ospf Area Aggregation Settings - D-Link xStack DES-3800 Series User Manual

OSPF Area Aggregation Settings

Area Aggregation allows all of the routing information that may be contained within an area to be
aggregated into a summary LSDB advertisement of just the network address and subnet mask. This
allows for a reduction in the volume of LSDB advertisement traffic as well as a reduction in the
memory overhead in the Switch used to maintain routing tables. Click Layer 3 Features > OSPF >
OSPF Area Aggregation Settings link to view the current settings. There are no aggregation settings
configured by default, so there will not be any listed the first accessing the menu. To add a new OSPF
Area Aggregation setting, click the Add button. A new menu (pictured below) appears. To change an
existing configuration, click on the hyperlinked Area ID for the set you want to change. The menu to
modify an existing configuration is the same as the menu used to add a new one. To eliminate an
existing configuration, click the
Use the menu below to change settings or add a new OSPF Area Aggregation setting.
Specify the OSPF aggregation settings and click the Apply button to add or change the settings. The
new settings will appear listed in the OSPF Area Aggregation Configuration table. To view the
table, click the Show All OSPF Aggregation Entries
xStack DES-3800 Series Layer 3 Stackable Fast Ethernet Managed Switch
NOTE: For OSPF to function properly some settings should
be identical on all participating OSPF devices. These settings
include the Hello Interval and Dead Interval. For networks
using authorization for OSPF devices, the Authorization Type
and Password or Key used must likewise be identical.
in the Delete column for the configuration being removed.
Figure 8- 35. OSPF Area Aggregation Settings table
Figure 8- 36. OSPF Area Aggregation Settings - Add
link to return to the previous window.
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