On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> This is a resend - apologies if it appears twice. Or indeed three times.
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> Mark, thanks for your comments.
> A couple of points that I didn't make clear in the first email...
> Although the static route overrides the OSPF route on RTB, RTB does know about
> the 50.0.0.0 network from OSPF as well - it shows up with 'show ip ospf da su'.
> So there is an LSA for that network in the OSPF table on RTB.
> My understanding, which you seem to confirm with your point 2, is that routing
> protocols (in this case, OSPF and static routes) work independantly of one
> another, and that barring redistribution, OSPF will not have any knowledge of
> the existence of the static route. If this is the case, then regardless of the
> layout of my routers or any other complexities, adding a static route should
> make no difference to what LSAs are distributed by OSPF, and so there should be
> no difference in what RTC gets.
> However, these routers seem to think otherwise :-)
> Unfortunately I can't bung on a debug of OSPF to see exactly what LSAs are being
> transmitted - I don't think the routers would cope very well and I wouldn't be
> very popular if I brought them down unexpectedly.
> If somebody could confirm or deny my basic understanding of routing protocol
> behaviour, it would be much appreciated, because if I'm wrong I have a lot of
> studying to catch up on...
> RTB is actually an MSM with lots of qualifiers in the IOS version, and RTC runs
> a completely different major version of IOS, so it wouldn't surprise me too much
> if this is the result of a bug.
Jenny,
Well one thing for sure, is that IOS has no shortage of OSPF bugs. In
fact, the amount of bugs that exist in IOS's OSPF is astronomical, one has
to wonder how it works at all. You may wish to check Bug Navigator....
Brian
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> JMcL
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Brian Feeny, CCNP, CCDP [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network Administrator
ShreveNet Inc. (ASN 11881)
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