if this doesn't harm anything, I'm thinking I may make this the standard, its flapped 24 times since I put it in, not a single ospf drop
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Chris Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > I’ve had to run OSPF on a bridge in a pinch, and so long as you don’t make > any live changes to the bridge (adding/removing interfaces), the Mikrotik > won’t mind. Just remember to set your static OSPF interfaces (if you have > any) accordingly. Same goes for MPLS – LDP Interfaces if you’re using it. > If you’re thinking it’ll be like this for longer than a week, leave > yourself plenty of documentation to backtrack properly. Nothing like coming > back to it three months later and trying to remember what you did! > > > > Chris Wright > > Network Administrator > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Steve Jones > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 19, 2017 9:21 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [AFMUG] flapping ethernet port ospf workaround > > > > So ive been dealing with the SAFs and the mikrotiks being uppity with one > another. > > SAF has a gigabit port, but it only offers the option to lock it to 100, > not gigabit. > > so I have the mikrotiks set, just not the otherside, the port still flaps > on both radios > > > > what was happening is everytime it flaps, the interface dropped in ospf > and went neighbor down, rerouting traffic then coming back up > > > > what I did was made a bridge, added that port to it, and put the ospf ip > on the bridge itself, this allows the port to flap without the ospf > interface going down until we work throught the issue with SAF > > > > I'm wondering if this is causing some other harm having it on the bridge, > rather than the physical port >
