Configures the cost of sending a packet to all interfaces belonging to an area.
| area_identifier | Specifies an OSPFv3 area, a four-byte, dotted decimal number. |
| automatic | Determine the advertised cost from the OSPFv3 metric table. |
| cost | Specifies the cost metric. Range is 1 to 65535. |
The default cost is automatic.
Use this command to set the cost of the links belonging to area manually, if the default cost needs to be overwritten. The interface cost is advertised as the link cost in router-LSA.
The following command configures the cost of area 0.0.0.1 to 10. All the links of this area will inherit the area's cost value of 10.
configure ospfv3 area 0.0.0.1 cost 10
This command was first available in ExtremeXOS 11.2.
This command is available on platforms with an Advanced Edge or Base license, or higher, as described in the ExtremeXOS and Switch Engine 31.7 Feature License Requirements document.