3com 2500 User Guide

Displaying the Link State Database 13-15

The link state database contains information about different link state 
advertisements (LSAs). 

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This display summarizes all LSAs in the link state database.

To display a link state database summary:

1 From the top level of the Administration Console, enter:

2 Enter the area ID.

3 Enter the area mask.

4 Enter the Link State ID (LSID).

5 Enter the LSID mask.

Example:

Enter Area ID [0.0.0.0]: 0.0.0.2

Enter Area mask [0.0.0.0]:

Enter LSID [0.0.0.0]:

Enter LSID mask [0.0.0.0]:

The following sample shows a link state database summary:

Table 13-4 describes the fields for the summary display.

system
ethernet
fddi
atm
bridge

➧

ip
ipx
appletalk
snmp
analyzer
script
logout

interface
route
arp
multicast
udphelper
routing
icmpRouterDiscovery

➧

ospf
rip
ping
statistics

areas
defaultRouteMetric
interface

➧

linkStateData
neighbors
routerID
partition
stubDefaultMetric
virtualLinks
statistics

➧

databaseSummary
router
network
summary
external

  Area ID          Checksum   LSA    Router  Network  Summary  External
                   Summation  Count  LSAs    LSAs     LSAs     LSAs
  --               003175AE   107    --      --       --       107
  158.101.0.0      00017729   3      2       1        0        --

Table 13-4   Field Attributes for Link State Database Summary Display

Checksum Summation

Total of all LSA checksums

LSA Count

Number of LSAs

Router LSAs

Number of router link LSAs

Network LSAs

Number of network link LSAs

Summary LSAs

Number of summary link LSAs

External LSAs

Number of external link LSAs