OSPF in v3

[bairdc]

Just curious if anyone can report yet on the stability of OSPF in v3. Do the issues present in v2 appear to be fixed in v3?

Craig

[oscarBravo]

bminish has been doing some experimenting with two WARs. The results are not entirely promising - we've seen the same failure modes, and (I think) some new ones.

[bairdc]

<sigh> I think I'm going to cry...

I hate to ask this, but does anyone know if Mikrotik's OSPF has these issues?

Craig

[tony]

We have many people using OSPF on the WAR platform with good success. I am unsure what the configuration differences are however.

[oscarBravo]

They're keeping very quiet about it. Can I publicly request that they share their experiences, as we have ours, to see if there's something they're doing right that we're doing wrong?

[bairdc]

Agreed. Please speak up if you've got OSPF working well on v3 (or on v2)!

I am at a crossroads with my network. It's time to start migrating away from WRAPs to something more powerful, capable, etc. My obvious preference would be to move to WARs and v3. However, I *have* to choose something with a stable OSPF. It has gotten to the point where OSPF is critical. I simply can't afford to upgrade my entire network only to be plagued by the same problems.

Please... If you have OSPF working in a stable manner, with multiple redundant Atheros links, and if you're able to consistently do an activate changes or a reboot without having a network meltdown, please let us know!

Craig

[Stratolinks]

<sigh> I think I'm going to cry...

I hate to ask this, but does anyone know if Mikrotik's OSPF has these issues?

Craig


When you report a problem to Mikrotik, one of the first things that their tech support asks you to do is to disable OSPF, as well as disable all queues, WEP, WPA.

We had a test bed setup on the bench with 3 SBCs and 4 CM9 radio cards on 5Gig that will pass data, but not all data. Some ftp transfers fail, others work, some web sites load others do not. If I switch to 2.4Gig, everything works. Which last summer was not the case, but the new wireless drivers seems to have fixed the problem on 2.4Gig anyway. On the same hardware, I install Star-OS and everything works perfectly.

The tech support from Mikrotik is awful. I sent then an email describign the problem in detail, and giving them username and password to VNC to a computer that was behind the routers so they could see the problem. I also gave then a username and password to get into the routers. In response they indicated that the problem was on the second link, but couldn't do any better without access a password to get into the routers. The password they needed was quoted in back to me from my original email to them. When I pointed this out, they still just blamed the second link citing there must be interference on that link. They were 6 inches apart from each other on the bench. The problem we are seeing gets progressively worse as you add more links.

We then installed Star-OS on these machines with the same channel asignments and everything worked flawlessly.

Star-OS may not have as nice of a front-end as Mikrotik/Winbox, but what is there works properly and reliably.

[oscarBravo]

Star-OS may not have as nice of a front-end as Mikrotik/Winbox, but what is there works properly and reliably. ...except OSPF.

(And WPA-PSK in 2.11.0.)

[lonnie]

Paul, do you have ANY first hand experience that MT OSPF works perfectly in your layout? If you do not then please refrain from taking the unwarranted digs at us. You might be hoping but that certainly does not make it so.

I expect you do not have any such first hand experience in precisely the same layout, otherwise you would have already switched. So lay off.

...except OSPF.

(And WPA-PSK in 2.11.0.)

[oscarBravo]

Paul, do you have ANY first hand experience that MT OSPF works perfectly in your layout? Nope, no first-hand experience of MT at all. If you do not then please refrain from taking the unwarranted digs at us. You might be hoping but that certainly does not make it so.

I expect you do not have any such first hand experience in precisely the same layout, otherwise you would have already switched. So lay off. This isn't about Mikrotik (at least, it isn't for me). This is about StarOS. I was replying to Stratolinks, who implied that StarOS doesn't have any problems: it does.

[lonnie]

I still say lay off. Comments like that do nothing good.

Nope, no first-hand experience of MT at all. This isn't about Mikrotik (at least, it isn't for me). This is about StarOS. I was replying to Stratolinks, who implied that StarOS doesn't have any problems: it does.