Error Type Description
Auth-Error Simple authentication error.
MD5-Error MD5 error
Cksum-Err Checksum Error
Version Version mismatch
AreaMismatch Area mismatch
Conf-Issue The received hello packet has a different hello or dead interval than 
the configuration.
No-Buffer Buffer allocation failure.
Seq-no A sequence no errors occurred during the database exchange 
process.
Socket Socket Read/Write operation error.
Q-overflow Packet(s) dropped due to queue overflow.
Unknown-Pkt Received packet is not an OSPF packet.
Example
FTOS#show ip ospf 1 statistics global
OSPF Packet Count
   Total Error Hello DDiscr LSReq LSUpd LSAck
RX 10    0     8     2      0     0     0
TX 10    0     10    0      0     0     0
OSPF Global Queue Length
         TxQ-Len RxQ-Len Tx-Mark Rx-Mark
Hello-Q  0       0       0       2
LSR-Q    0       0       0       0
Other-Q  0       0       0       0
Error packets (Only for RX)
Intf-Down  0   Non-Dr     0   Self-Org 0
Wrong-Len  0   Invld-Nbr  0   Nbr-State 0
Auth-Err   0   MD5-Err    0   Chksum 0
Version    0   AreaMis    0   Conf-Issues 0
No-Buffer  0   Seq-No     0   Socket 0
Q-OverFlow 0   Unkown-Pkt 0
Error packets (Only for TX)
Socket Errors    0
FTOS#
Usage 
Information
The show ip ospf process-id statistics command displays the error packet 
count received on each interface as:
• The hello-timer remaining value for each interface
• The wait-timer remaining value for each interface
• The grace-timer remaining value for each interface
• The packet count received and transmitted for each neighbor
• Dead timer remaining value for each neighbor
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