# OSPFv3 Router ID Documentation on Arista EOS

DevFeed: [OSPFv3 Router ID Documentation on Arista EOS](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ospfv3-router-id-documentation-on-arista-eos-11275.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipspace.net/2025/11/arista-eos-ospfv3-router-id/>)

Published: 2025-11-27T06:27:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [ipSpace.net blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ipspace-net-blog.md>)

Topics: [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/documentation.md>)

Tags: [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [errors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/errors.md>), [ospf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ospf.md>), [reference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reference.md>), [technical](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical.md>)

## AI overview

This article reviews inaccuracies in Arista EOS documentation for the OSPFv3 router-id command and describes implementation gotchas involving missing or removed router IDs and IPv4 addresses. It notes that the EOS documentation was fixed around release 4.36.0F.

## Source excerpt

When I published a blog post making fun of the ridiculously incorrect Cisco IOS/XE OSPFv3 documentation, an engineer working for Cisco quickly sent me an email saying, "Well, the other vendors are not much better." Let's see how well Arista EOS is doing; this is their description of the router-id command (taken from EOS 4.35.0F documentation; unchanged for at least a dozen releases): 2026-04-14: The EOS documentation has been fixed around release 4.36.0F. Thanks a million! Read more ...