Re: [nsp] OSPF bugs

From: Basil V. Dolmatov (dol@east.ru)
Date: Fri Jul 17 1998 - 05:06:36 EDT


I would recommend to insert necessary routes on Cisco.
GateD behaves itself when inserting routes with different
next-hops.

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Basil (Vasily) Dolmatov dol@east.ru +7-095-956-4951
East Connection ISP, Moscow, Russia. (http://www.east.ru)

Nick handles ;) : BVD12, DOL1-RIPE, VVD2-RIPN

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jon Lewis wrote:

> I'm still seeing a bug in OSPF on my 3640 running
> IOS (tm) 3600 Software (C3640-I-M), Version 11.2(13)P1, RELEASE SOFTWARE
> (fc1)
>
> What happens is I have a router running gated that exports a few routes
> for devices that can't speak OSPF. i.e. it exports a route for some
> subnets with some other box as the gateway. This generally works fine for
> all my devices...but occasionally (like today) we needed to temporarily
> route some subnets to a different box, and the 3640 above received the new
> routes but also held onto the old ones, and kept using the old ones.
>
> I restarted gated several times on the system exporting the routes with no
> effect, and even shut down gated long enough for the neighbor status to be
> lost (the gated box was considered dead) and still the 3640 wouldn't throw
> away the routes.
>
> At the time, the 3640 was BDR, and a Lucent PM3 was DR.
>
> I've seen this problem before on 11.2(8) on the 3640, and 11.0(13) on
> 2501s. I was tempted to use our 3640 smartnet contract today, but I
> didn't feel like sitting on hold.
>
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