Adding and Editing Area Settings

You can add a new Area configuration or edit an existing configuration.

1. Select Add to create a new OSPF configuration, Edit to modify an existing configuration or Delete to remove a configuration.

   

   

2. Set the following OSPF Area configurations:

   Area ID	If adding a new OSPF Area, use the drop-down menu and specify the Area ID either as an IP address or Integer.
   Authentication Type	Select either None, simple-password or message-digest as the credential validation scheme used with the OSPF dynamic route. The default setting is None (no data protection).
   Type	Set the OSPF area type as either stub, totally-stub, nssa, totally-nssa or non-stub.
   Default Cost	Select this option to set the default summary cost advertised if creating a stub. Set a value from 1 - 16, 777,215.
   Translate Type	Define how messages are translated. Options include translate-candidate, translate always and translate-never. The default setting is translate-candidate.
   Range	Specify a range of addresses for routes matching address/mask for OSPF summarization.

3. Select the OK button to save the changes to the area configuration. Select Reset to revert to the last saved configuration.