On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:32:07PM -0400, stan wrote:
> I have a couple of OpenBSD 3.7 machines that I use for a firewall/gateway
> to a particulare network at work using carp. I had these machines set up to
> advertise the route to this network using routed (RIP). Today some changes
> were amde to the networking topolgy, and I sudently find myselef in a 
> postion of needing to change to ospf.
> 
> I built the zebra prt, and now I'm having a bit of trouble getting thisng
> to work. First, I;m assuming that since I only need ospf, I should
> be able to just run ospfd, is this correct, or do I need to run the zebra
> executbale, and let it call opsfd?
> 

For zebras ospfd to work you need both zebra and ospfd running. Without
zebra it will not work correctly.

> Here's my /etc/ospfd.conf file:
> 

This is the config of OpenOSPFD that is part of OpenBSD. zebra uses
/etc/zebra as config directory.

> I'm peering with an Aclere (sp) router, and when I run opsfd, I cna't get
> them to work with each other. here's some ouptut from the daemon:
> 
> 
> recv_db_description: neighbor ID 170.85.115.1, seq_num 2d5830df
> recv_dd_description: invalid MTU, neighbor ID 170.85.115.1
> db_tx_timer: neighbor ID 170.85.115.1
> send_db_description: neighbor ID 170.85.115.1, seq_num 2d5830df
> send_db_description: state EXSTART, neighbor ID 170.85.115.1
> 

That are not zebra error messages but OpenOSPFD ones.

> By googling I did find a reference to changing the check for MTU size,
> but it references changing code in a file called database.c, which does not
> seem to exist in the zebra port build directory.
> 
> I want this machine to advertise a route to the network on fxp2. This 
> advertisement
> should go out on the network fxp0 connects to.
> 
> Any idea how to solve the MTU problem? and am I close on my config file?
> 

You have to decide which ospfd you would like to run. Zebra or OpenOSPFD.

-- 
:wq Claudio

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