OSPF with some random wierdness

[rebel2234]

versions used: a bunch ranging from 1.3.6-1.3.18
platforms: x-86, wrap, wp188



We have been having some small problems with ospf lately. Sometimes if a box restarts on a segment out form our noc one of the boxes on that segment will not learn all of it's routes and a ssh into an adjacent box that is working and then a ssh from that box to the box that has lost its routes and an activate changes always brings it back. I am a bit puzzled as to why this is happening. Shouldn't ospf hello's be finding the box down (during a reboot) and then also picking it back up when it is up and operational.

Maybe somone with some OSPF experience can gimme a little advice.

On almost all of our internal routers I have just added the following line in ospf terminal (that is the only line I have):

network 0.0.0.0/0 area 0.0.0.0
Which seems to pick up all the addresses I assign to any interface. Maybe this isn't good practice and could be the source of my problems.



Should I be declaring the network segments and neighbors on each router?

[DrLove73]

One obviously stupid question: Have you tried 1.3.23b?

[rebel2234]

One obviously stupid question: Have you tried 1.3.23b?

Well, that is where I am trying to nail it down to... If it is a version problem then that is the route I would have to take = upgrade all boxes. As this is a production system and upgrading some 30+ routers we would like to stay away from as some of our commercial connections would complain not to mention possibly compounding problems introduced by changing versions system wide.

I will have to sift through the release posts and sources and see what versions of quagga etc etc...

[Elshar]

You should either be explicitly declaring networks, or you should have a route filter setup to filter out the networks you definately don't want routed across your network (Wild guess: 192.168.0.0/16, and 172.16.0.0/12 are probably two of them).



network 0.0.0.0/0 area 0.0.0.0Which seems to pick up all the addresses I assign to any interface. Maybe this isn't good practice and could be the source of my problems.



Should I be declaring the network segments and neighbors on each router?