Hi.

> In terms of unusual settings, we have some rather aggressive OSPF hello and
> dead timers set. Hellos are set to 1 a second, and dead set to 3 seconds.

In this case better use OSPF+BFD solution - it's much more stable +
you can get less-second failover.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Alex Laties <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Ondrej,
>
> So, we've had debug enabled from the start of our deployment. We currently
> have "debug protocols all" set.
>
> From what I can glean from the logs, these messages appear after some time
> after the adjacency has been established.
>
> Our current deployment has juniper routing instances talking OSPF, as well
> as linux boxes talking OSPF via bird.
>
> The OSPF interface is in broadcast mode I believe.
>
> In terms of unusual settings, we have some rather aggressive OSPF hello and
> dead timers set. Hellos are set to 1 a second, and dead set to 3 seconds.
>
> What we tend to see in our logs from bird is that occasionally, bird fails
> to send a Hello packet for 2 or 3 seconds. More specifically, we see gaps of
> 2 to 3 seconds in the log file.
>
> We've disabled debug on one of our active nodes. The frequency for that node
> to go from Full to Down is significantly lower than it's peers at the moment
> (once a day vs once or twice every couple of hours).
>
> We're testing bird 1.4.5 on one of our nodes for the next 48 hours and will
> report back with results there.
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Ondrej Zajicek <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 09:42:32PM -0400, Alex Laties wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > We currently have a large production deployment using version bird 1.3.7
>> > for OSPF.
>> >
>> > We're seeing the following message pretty frequently in our logs:
>> >
>> > > dbdes - sequence mismatch neighbor 192.168.39.216 (full)
>> >
>> > The period between these messages is irregular. Sometimes these occur
>> > within a few seconds of each other. Sometimes it can be a few hours
>> > between
>> > these messages.
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> These messages are the result of receiving DBDES packets when a neighbor
>> adjacency is already established. This shouldn't happen in normal
>> operation, although i would guess it might happen in some circumstances
>> if the other side is hard restarted and became available again before the
>> other side notices it (by inactivity timer).
>>
>>
>> First, i would suggest to use latest version of BIRD.
>>
>> Second, i would suggest enabling 'debug { events }' for OSPF protocol
>> to see what happens on boths sides immediately before the mismatch.
>>
>> Are these messages appear just after the neighbor changed state to full
>> or after some time after the adjacency establishment?
>>
>> Is the other side also BIRD?
>>
>> Is the OSPF interface in broadcast or ptp mode?
>>
>> Is this regular or some kind of unusual setting?
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
>> Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: [email protected])
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>
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