ospfclient(8)

ospfclient8

An example ospf-api client

Usage

ospfclient <ospfd> <lsatype> <opaquetype> <opaqueid> <ifaddr> <areaid>

Overview

ospfclient is an example ospf-api client to test the ospfd daemon.

Options

ospfd

A router where the API-enabled OSPF daemon is running.

lsatype

The value has to be either "9", "10", or "11", depending on the flooding scope.

opaquetype

The value has to be in the range of 0-255 (for example, experimental applications might use opaquetype larger than 128).

opaqueid

Arbitrary application instance (24 bits).

ifaddr

Interface IP address for type 9, otherwise it will be ignored.

areaid

Area in the IP address format for type 10, otherwise it will be ignored.

Warning

This man page is intended to be a quick reference for command line options. The definitive document is the info file frr 6.0.2 or the documentation available on the project website at https://frrouting.org/.

Diagnostics

The daemon may log to standard output, to a VTY, to a log file, or through syslog to the system logs. FRR supports many debugging options, see the Info file, web docs or source for details.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 7–8
  2. 9
  3. 10

Bugs

FRR eats bugs for breakfast. If you have food for the maintainers, please email <[email protected]>.

From frr 6.0.2-2+deb10u1 in Debian 10 (Buster). Also shipped by quagga-ospfd. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.