configure ospfv3 area cost
Description
Configures the cost of sending a packet to all interfaces belonging to an area.
Syntax Description
| 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. |
Default
The default cost is automatic.
Usage Guidelines
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.
Example
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
History
This command was first available in ExtremeXOS 11.2.
Platform Availability
This command is available on platforms with Base license, or higher, as described in the Switch Engine 32.2 Feature License Requirements document.