On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Wade Williams wrote:
>
> > I don't know *why* this matters, but several of our "OSPF is broken
> > again, and we can't figure out why" hair-pulling episodes have turned
> > out to be router-id related. Why cisco can't put in an explict
> > router-id directive in is beyond me.
> >
>
> We've got one. A loopback interface.
It was a great joke... Adding one more loopback with higher IP address will
mess OSPF and will demand some dances around with cleaning that and
clearing this in order to return network to operational state.
"Why cisco can't put in an explict router-id directive in is beyond me."
Fully agree with that.
Seems the left hand in Cisco do not know the results of right hand job... ;)
chuck(config-router)#bgp router-id ?
A.B.C.D Manually configured router identifier
I cannot understand why it was made in BGP (where it is less necessary than
in OSPF) and was not made in OSPF, where it would save a lot of time wasted
on "troubleshooting".
>
> Wade
>
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