Restarting IPv4 OSPFv2 Instances

Restarting an IPv4 OSPFv2 Instance lets you clear OSPF database and restart OSPF adjacency for an instance without restarting the Gaia RouteD daemon.

Note - These commands are available from R81.10.05.

Important:

  • Restarting any part of an OSPF protocol tears down all neighbor adjacencies and brings them back up.

  • The protocol's Graceful Restart mechanism does not take effect.

  • Side effects of restarting an OSPF instance include:

    • Loss of OSPF routes

    • Traffic outage

    • Network topology reconvergence

  • In a Cluster, restart of an OSPF instance does not trigger a cluster failover.

To restart an IPv4 OSPFv2 instance in Clish

  1. Connect to the command line.

  2. Log in to Clish.

  3. Restart the OSPF Instance:

    restart ospf instance {<1-65535> | default}