ipv6 ospf hello-interval

Sets the length of time between the transmission of hello packets that an interface sends to neighbor routers.

Syntax

ipv6 ospf hello-interval interval
no ipv6 ospf hello-interval

Command Default

The length of time between the transmission of hello packets is set to 10 seconds.

Parameters

interval
Hello interval in seconds. Valid values range from 1 through 65535 seconds. The default is 10.

Modes

Interface subtype configuration mode

Usage Guidelines

If you change the hello interval, the dead interval is automatically changed to a value that is four times that of the new hello interval, unless the dead interval is also explicitly configured using the ipv6 ospf dead-interval command.

The recommended setting is that:

The running-config command displays only explicitly configured values of the dead interval, which means that a value that was automatically changed as the result of a hello interval change is not displayed.

The no form of the command restores the default value.

Examples

The following example sets the hello interval to 20 on a specific OSPFv3 Ethernet interface.

device# configure terminal
device(config)# interface ethernet 1/1
device(conf-if-eth-1/1)# ipv6 ospf hello-interval 20