[c-nsp] OSPF Dead Timer issues

[cisco-nsp at bppb.net]

(rewritten and sent to the list - sorry about the duplicate gert)

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:13:19PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> Make sure you have the very latest firmware for the Extreme.  
> 
> We've run into a very similar issue with a Summit 48 (no i), and the 
> essence seems to be "Extreme switches know that multicast is specialy in
> some way, but they don't *really* know what to do with it, so the boxes 
> just drop every other multicast packet".
> 
> Effectively killing OSPF and EIGRP...

The extreme is running quite an old version of extremeware - so this is
a good lead.

I'll let you know how I get on.

Thanks.

Regards,
Phillip Baker
LCHost CTO