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Super Micro Intelligent Switch Command Line Interface User Guide
26.12 area - virtual-link
This command defines an OSPF virtual link and its related parameters. The no form of removes
an OSPF virtual link.
area <area-id> virtual-link <router-id> [authentication {message-digest
| null}] [hello-interval <value (1-65535)>] [retransmit-interval <value
(0- 3600)>] [transmit-delay <value (0-3600)>] [dead-interval <value>]
[{authentication-key <key (8)> | message-digest-key <Key-id (0-255)>
md5 <key (16)>}]
no area <area-id> virtual-link <router-id> [authentication] [hello-
interval] [retransmit-interval] [transmit-delay] [dead-interval]
[{authentication-key | message-digest-key <Key-id (0-255)>}]
Syntax Description
area-id - The Transit Area that the Virtual Link traverses. It is specified as an IP address
virtual-link - The Router ID of the Virtual Neighbor
authentication - The authentication type for an interface
hello-interval - The interval between hello packets that the software sends on the OSPF
virtual link interface
retransmitinterval - The time between link-state advertisement (LSA) retransmissions for
adjacencies belonging to the OSPF virtual link interface
transmit-delay - The time the router will stop using this key for packets generation
dead-interval - The interval at which hello packets must not be seen before its neighbors
declare the router down (the range of values for the dead interval is 0–0x7fffffff)
authenticationkey - Identifies the secret key used to create the message digest appended
to the OSPF packet
message-digestkey - OSPF MD5 authentication. Enables Message Digest 5 (MD5)
authentication on the area specified by the area-id
md5 - The secret key which is used to create the message digest appended to the OSPF packet
Mode
Router Configuration Mode
Defaults
Authentication - null
hello-interval - 10