Configuring OSPF routing on Distributed Logical Router

Let me re-emphasize the Distributed Logical Router use case. The whole purpose of DLR is to do an intelligent East-West routing, which allows virtual machine to virtual machine communication without going through traditional data center hop-by-hop routing. Let's go ahead and configure OSPF on DLR:

  1. In the Routing category panel, select Global Configuration.
  2. On the right-hand side of the Dynamic Routing Configuration panel, click Edit.
  3. In the Edit Dynamic Routing Configuration dialog box, select Interface as Transit and 192.168.10.2 from the Router ID drop-down menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. This setting must be specified before OSPF can be configured.
  5. Leave all other fields at the ...

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