Hello I received the following as bug report against the Debian packages I maintain. Can anybody with OSPF and IPv6 knowledge comment if this is a misconfiguration or a bug?
thanks, -christian- On 2005-05-17 Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > Version: 0.98.3 > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Kernel: Linux 2.6.10 > > Hello, > > We have a few quagga ospf6d exchanging routes on our network (all > Debian testing). One of the routers has had its MAC address changed > (in fact the NIC used to access the backbone got swapped with a unused > one). Therefore, its link-local scope IPv6 address has changed too. > > This address serves as a gateway address for all prefixes exported by > said router. > > Unfortunately, ospf6d on all others routers failed to remove the old > routes (with the old link-local scope IPv6 address as gateway). > Prefixes advertised by the router whose MAC address changed hence > all became unreachable. It should be noted that a new route with the > new updated gateway address got added, but it is not used since it is > newer and has identical metric, lifetime, etc. > > Restarting quagga on all hosts did not solve the problem. The obsoleted > route has to be removed *manually* (with /sbin/ip) on all other > routers. That very much breaks the idea of dynamic routing and OSPF.
