Hi Ace But reaching to a FULL state is not one of the conditions for Helper to quit Helper mode, I guess a Helper who has reached to FULL state with its restarting router will wait for Grace LSAs to be flushed or GR timeout to happen for exiting Helper mode.
Regards Aamir -----Original Message----- From: Acee Lindem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 8:00 PM To: Khan Amir-G20247 Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSPF] OSPF GR query Hello Amir, Khan Amir-G20247 wrote: > > > Hi > > I have query related to OSPF Graceful Restart. > > Consider this scenario: > > > > - Three Routers R1, R2 and R3 connected via Broadcast networks. > > > > > > > > - Where R1 is a DR on both the segments, where as R2 and R3 are in > DR-other > - Now R1 wants to perform GR, R2 and R3 agrees to be its Helpers. > - Now after restart R1 will try to form adjacency with both R2 and R3. > - Lets say R1 and R2 had become FULL, while R1 and R3 had reached > Exstart state. Now at this time R2 receives an LSA (any type 1-5 and > 7, from some other router existing in the same area, not pictured > here) which he needs to flood to R1. > - This will force R2 to quit Helper Status, while R1 and R3 are still > in process of forming adjacency. > Since he has reached FULL state, he is no longer a helper router. > > > Considering above scenario, my doubts are: > > - How will R1 come to know that its Helper R2 has quit? > Since he has reached FULL state, he is no longer a helper router. > - Will the adjacency between R1 and R2 needs to go down, as R2 quits > helper mode? > No > - Will this effect the adjacency formation of R1 and R3? > No. R3 MAY exit helper status and re-originate a new router LSA if he receives the new LSA before reaching FULL state with R1 AND he is has strict-LSA-checking configured. Hope this helps, Acee > > > Regards > Aamir > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > _______________________________________________ > OSPF mailing list > [email protected] > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ospf > _______________________________________________ OSPF mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ospf
