[j-nsp] OSPF next hop

[Aaron Dewell]

Hi all,

I ran into an odd behavior here tonight, I'm hoping someone has some ideas.  We have 8 routers on a broadcast OSPF segment.  All are advertising their loopback addresses (amongst other things).  I'll call this R1 to R8 for now.  Their IP addresses on this shared segment are 192.168.0.16X/28 (X corresponding to RX).  

R2 is the current DR and R6 is the BDR.  All the priorities are the same, not that it matters.

>From R7, all routes to the other routers' loopback address cross R2!  I'm not sure if it's because it happens to be the DR or what.

acd at R7> show route <R6's loopback>    

inet.0: xxxx destinations, xxxx routes (xxxx active, 0 holddown, 4 hidden)
+ = Active Route, - = Last Active, * = Both

<R6's loopback>/32  *[OSPF/10] 23:57:02, metric 40045
                    > to 192.168.0.162 via ge-0/0/3.200

The metric indicates that the path is: R7->R2->R1->R6, which is proven by the traceroute.  The metric for this broadcast segment is 20000 on all routers.  The 45 is a 10G interface directly connecting R2 and R1.  The metric of the correct path is exactly 20k (directly connected over this shared segment).

The example is typical, all of the other router's loopback's look the same (except R8 which is it's buddy and directly connected).

Any ideas on what else to look at?  The OSPF database looks reasonable.  Our other shared segments act normal.  All routers are on 11.4R2.

Thanks!

Aaron