CLI Guide

Error Type Description
Non-Dr Received packets with a destination address of ALL_DRS
even though SELF is not a designated router.
Self-Org Receive the self originated packet.
Wrong_Len The received packet length is different to what was
indicated in the OSPF header.
Invld-Nbr LSA, LSR, LSU, and DDB are received from a peer which is
not a neighbor peer.
Nbr-State LSA, LSR, and LSU are received from a neighbor with stats
less than the loading state.
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 Packets dropped due to queue overflow.
Unknown-Pkt Received packet is not an OSPF packet.
Example
Dell#show ip ospf 10 statistics global
OSPF Packet Count
Total Error Hello DDiscr LSReq LSUpd
LSAck
RX 34 0 26 2 1 3
2
TX 34 0 25 3 1 3
2
OSPF Global Queue Length
TxQ-Len RxQ-Len Tx-Mark Rx-Mark
Hello-Q 0 0 1 1
LSR-Q 0 0 1 1
Other-Q 0 0 2 2
Error packets (Receive statistics)
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
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Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3)