>>. Doing this you enable ospf on the interfaces with addresses within 
>>x.x.x.x/x. 

This is not wanted on all edge networks/customer networks. 

You are absolutely right Stefan, my colleagues failed to mention (assumed), 
that you should put all your physical interfaces in the OSPF interface and set 
them up as passive :) 

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----- Original Message -----

> From: "Stefan Englhardt" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 9:45:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] mt ospf question

> Doing this you enable ospf on the interfaces with addresses within x.x.x.x/x.

> This is not wanted on all edge networks/customer networks.

> Von: Af [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Shayne Lebrun
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2015 15:33
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: [AFMUG] mt ospf question

> You tell the router what routes to redistribute, rather than telling the
> router to redistribute everything that’s there.

> There’s never a reason not to simply take the extra five seconds to type
> ‘/routing ospf network add network=x.x.x.x/x area=whatever’.

> There’s a lot of very good reasons not to, however.

> From: Af [ mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Stefan Englhardt
> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 8:16 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] mt ospf question

> Looked twice at this. How does your network know the route to a network
> connected to one of your routers if he does not redistribute this
> information into ospf?

> Von: Af [ mailto:[email protected] ] Im Auftrag von Dennis Burgess
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2015 14:10
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: [AFMUG] mt ospf question

> There are about 0 times when you should distribute connected, just a FYI. 99%
> of the time it causes issues with unintended and/or unneeded distribution of
> routes ..

> Dennis Burgess, CTO, Link Technologies, Inc.

> [email protected] – 314-735-0270 – www.linktechs.net

> From: Af [ mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Gilbert Gutierrez
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 3:47 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] mt ospf question

> Are you redistributing Connected? If the /30 is not on the networks tab, then
> you will need to redistribute connected routes. If you add static routes
> pointing to places you will want to redistribute static routes as well.

> Gilbert

> On 5/20/2015 1:03 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm wrote:

> > So I have this here mikrotik Ive been implementing ospf on
> 

> > Right now because this is transition, all MT ports hit the same switch
> 

> > Eth6 is on a /30 that is going to a powercode BMU thats distributing the
> > default route, it works fine
> 

> > Eth2 is on a /30 that is going to a fortigate, it works fine
> 

> > the routes propagate as they should
> 

> > I initially tried to add another /30 to Eth2 for a second fortigate, but it
> > wouldnt let me add the netwok
> 

> > so I put that /30 on eth3 it comes up in a state designated router
> 

> > I moved it to eth4, same thing designated router the other two that are
> > working have said backup all along
> 

> > is there something about adding a third ospf interface to mikrotik i need
> > to
> > know here?
> 

> > --
> 

> > If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as
> > part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
> 

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