Administrator Guide

• Restarting role in which an enabled router performs its own graceful restart.
• Helper role in which the router's graceful restart function is to help a restarting neighbor router in its
graceful restarts.
• Helper-reject role in which OSPF does not participate in the graceful restart of a neighbor.
• OSPFv2 supports helper-only and restarting-only roles. By default, both helper and restarting roles are
enabled. OSPFv2 supports the helper-reject role globally on a router.
• OSPFv3 supports helper-only and restarting-only roles. The helper-only role is enabled by default. To
enable the restarting role in addition to the helper-only role, configure a grace period. Reconfigure
OSPFv3 graceful restart to a restarting-only role when you enable the helper-reject role on an interface.
OSPFv3 supports the helper-reject role on a per-interface basis.
• Configuring helper-reject role on an OSPFv2 router or OSPFv3 interface enables the restarting-only role
globally on the router or locally on the interface. In a helper-reject role, OSPF does not participate in the
graceful restart of an adjacent OSPFv2/v3 router.
• If multiple OSPF interfaces provide communication between two routers, after you configure helper-
reject on one interface, all other interfaces between the two routers behave as if they are in the help-
reject role.
• OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 support planned-only and/or unplanned-only restarts. The default is support for
both planned and unplanned restarts.
A planned restart occurs when you enter the redundancy force-failover rpm command to force
the primary RPM to switch to the backup RPM. During a planned restart, OSPF sends out a Grace LSA
before the system switches over to the backup RPM.
An unplanned restart occurs when an unplanned event causes the active RPM to switch to the backup
RPM, such as when an active process crashes, the active RPM is removed, or a power failure happens.
During an unplanned restart, OSPF sends out a Grace LSA when the backup RPM comes online.
To display the configuration values for OSPF graceful restart, enter the show run ospf command for
OSPFv2 and the
show run ospf and show ipv6 ospf database database-summary commands for
OSPFv3.
Fast Convergence (OSPFv2, IPv4 Only)
Fast convergence allows you to define the speeds at which LSAs are originated and accepted, and reduce
OSPFv2 end-to-end convergence time.
The Dell Networking OS allows you to accept and originate LSAa as soon as they are available to speed up
route information propagation.
NOTE: The faster the convergence, the more frequent the route calculations and updates. This impacts
CPU utilization and may impact adjacency stability in larger topologies.
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