Reference Guide

bfd (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword bfd to debug only OSPF BFD
information.
event (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword event to debug only OSPF
event information.
packet (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword packet to debug only OSPF
packet information.
spf (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword spf to display the Shortest
Path First information.
database-timer
rate-limit
(OPTIONAL) Enter the keywords database-timer rate-
limit to display the LSA throttling timer information.
Command
Modes
EXEC Privilege
Command
History
Version 9.0(1.3) Introduced on the S5000.
Usage
Information
The following describes output for the debug ip ospf command shown in the
Example below.
Field Description
8:14 Displays the time stamp.
OSPF Displays the OSPF process ID: instance ID.
v: Displays the OSPF version. Dell Networking OS supports
version 2 only.
t: Displays the type of packet sent:
• 1 - Hello packet
• 2 - database description
• 3 - link state request
• 4 - link state update
• 5 - link state acknowledgement
l: Displays the packet length.
rid: Displays the OSPF router ID.
aid: Displays the Autonomous System ID.
chk: Displays the OSPF checksum.
aut: States if OSPF authentication is configured. One of the
following is listed:
• 0 - no authentication configured
• 1 - simple authentication configured using the ip ospf
authentication-key command
• 2 - MD5 authentication configured using the ip ospf
message-digest-key
command
Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3)
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