Enabling OSPF Neighbor Discovery on LANs

OSPF sends multicast OSPF Hello messages on LAN interfaces, attempting to discover OSPF neighbors, when two requirements are met:

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Image OSPF has been enabled on the interface, either through the network router subcommand or the ip ospf area interface subcommand.

Image The interface has not been made passive by the passive-interface router subcommand.

When both requirements are met, OSPF sends Hellos to the 224.0.0.5 ...

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