area sham-link retransmit-interval

Use this command to configure the retransmit interval for an OSPF sham link.

Syntax

area area-id sham-link source-ip-address destination-ip-address retransmit-interval seconds
no area area-id sham-link source-ip-address destination-ip-address retransmit-interval

Parameters

area-id Specifies the OSPF area the two PE routers belong to.
source-ip-address Specifies the source IP address for this sham link.
destination-ip-address Specifies the destination IP address for this sham link.
seconds (Optional) Specifies the number of seconds between successive retransmissions of the same LSAs. Valid values are greater than the expected amount of time required for the update packet to reach and return from the interface, and range from 1 to 3600. The default value is 5 seconds.

Defaults

Retransmit interval defaults to 5 seconds.

Mode

VRF configuration, OSPF router configuration.

Usage

The “no” form of this command resets the sham link retransmit interval value to the default value.

Example

This example shows how to configure the retransmit interval to 10 for a sham link between two PE routers with a source address of 172.16.1.10 and a destination address of 172.16.2.20 on OSPF router instance 10, VRF doc:

System(su)->router doc
System(su-doc)->configure
System(su-doc-config)->router ospf 10
System(su-doc-config-ospf-10)->enable-pe-ce
System(su-doc-config-ospf-10)->area 10 sham-link 172.16.1.10 172.16.2.20