OSPF¶

OSPF attribute Further information ¶

Unique router-id
Area ID
Area flags (Stub/NSSA flag)
Authentication type (MD5 (type 2), Simple (type 1) or None (type 0))
Authentication password (The authentication secret)
Hello/Dead interval
L3 MTU (The MTU announced on OSPF DBD packets)
- Compatible network type (p2p, broadcastetc... The network type must be consistent on the network segment. You’d have a broken graph if one OSPF node is expecting to - have a DR and other OSPF nodes aren’t.)
Network Mask (Since the network mask is coupled with the underlying graph, it has to match.)