That's odd, everything I ever touched is default type 1. On Sun, May 13, 2018, 5:18 PM George Skorup <[email protected]> wrote:
> The OSPF state machine always prefers an E1 route over an E2 route. > There's more stuff like multiple areas and ABRs, ASBRs and all that which I > don't really care about for a couple dozen routers and a single AS. But > I've always used E1 for the default route. Don't ask me why. Mostly because > I don't remember. But it was probably some MikroTik bug at some point. > > On 5/13/2018 4:53 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote: > > So why is type 2 the default on most routers? For what reason would you > use an E2 over an E1? > > On May 13, 2018, at 17:40, Matt Hoppes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Ooooo. They are all going out as Metric-type 2 > > On May 13, 2018, at 17:37, Matt Hoppes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Correct. A is distributing default route. Directly to C (in theory but not > happening) and to B which is distributing to C currently. > > This is edgeOS. > > I’m actually not sure. I’ll have to check on E1 vs E2. > > On May 13, 2018, at 17:26, George Skorup <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK, so only A is distributing the default route. as-type-1 or as-type-2? > E1 takes path costs into account. E2 does not. > > Bounce a neighbor and see if it fixes itself. I assume RouterOS. I've seen > weird stuff like this happen before. > > On 5/13/2018 4:15 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote: > > Only one - the Long one. > > The things connected to A take the direct path but the default is not > coming through for some reason. > > On May 13, 2018, at 17:12, George Skorup <[email protected]> wrote: > > How many default routes show up in the LSA table? > > On 5/13/2018 3:51 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote: > > OSPF question: > > > A—-B—-C > > And > > A——C > > > A is the Internet peering router. > > > C should end up with two default routes in it correct? > > > One through B and one directly to C? > > > What’s odd is everything on A populated on Cs route table as direct routes > - except for the default route. > > > > >
