Chapter 15

Table 15-2 Adjacency States

State

Description

Down

This state indicates that no hellos have been received from a neighbor.

Attempt

This state occurs after a router sends a unicast hello (as opposed to a multicast hello) to a configured neighbor and has not yet received a hello from that neighbor.

Init

This state occurs on a router that has received a hello message from its neighbor; however, the OSPF RID of the receiving router was not contained in the hello message. If a router remains in this state for a long period, something is probably preventing that router from correctly receiving hello packets from the neighboring router.

2Way

This state occurs when two OSPF routers receive hello messages ...

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