On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:46:56PM -0800, David Ulevitch wrote: > Misc, > > I'd like to hear how people are using OpenOSPFd and how it's working > out. >
It works for most setups. It is not optimal for big ABRs. > Are people using it in any sort of a local-cluster load balancing > method? For example: rtr1 servers area 1 and has three NTP servers > attached all announcing the same /32 over OSPF with some logic on the > server to withdraw the OSPF announcement if the service goes down? > Nope. There is no kernel support for multipath routing. First we need to have working multipath routing before making ospfd multipath aware. > Also, are people having any issues with the fact that ospfd and bgpd > each hold a copy of the routing table (at least) and are doing > inserts into the kernel's table, without any sort of preference for > multipath routing or metrics? (http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05- > henning/mgp00026.html) > In most cases this is a non issue because bgpd and ospfd are inserting different routes into the kernel. bgpd should announce the aggregated prefix (e.g. a /19 or so) and for that no real route is needed. ospfd on the other hand will add more specifc networks of that /19 and so the two should not interfere with each other. -- :wq Claudio
