Ospf Implementation - Dell C9000 Series Networking Configuration Manual

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Cost is a numbered rating 1 to 65535. The higher the number, the greater the cost. The cost assigned

reflects the cost should the router fail. When a router fails and the cost is assessed, a new priority

number results.

Figure 99. Priority and Cost Examples

OSPF Implementation

The Dell Networking OS supports up to 10,000 OSPF routes for OSPFv2. Within the 10,000 routes, you can

designate up to 8,000 routes as external and up to 2,000 as inter/intra area routes.

Multiple OSPF processes (OSPF MP) are supported on OSPFv2 only; up to 32 simultaneous processes are

On OSPFv3, the system supports only one process at a time for all platforms.

OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 can coexist on a switch, but you must configure them individually.

The system supports stub areas, totally stub (no summary) and not so stubby areas (NSSAs) and supports the

following LSAs:

Router (type 1)

Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3)