Hi,
a customer had a relatively common problem concerning OSPF, but did not find the solution searching the web. This post is supposed to help others find the information that is already out there.
OSPF was configured between two Extreme Networks switches, an S6 and an X460-G2. The OSPF adjacency formed and link state databases were synchronized. The output of
show ip ospf neighbor (S-Series) respectively
show ospf neighbor (EXOS) showed
full adjacencies, but the X460-G2 did not learn any routes over OSPF (the output of
show iproute origin ospf did not contain any routes).
A hint regarding the problem may be found in the
show [ip] ospf neighbors output, because two OSPF routers on a broadcast link will fill the roles of
DR and
BDR, but two OSPF routers on a point-to-point link will both have the role
DROTHER (or no role, but not DR/BDR).
The problem was that one switch was configured to use a point-to-point network type on the interface, but the other was left at the default of using a broadcast network type. In this case the adjacency forms, LSAs are exchanged, and the link state databases are synchronized, but for OSPF one of the routers seems to be connected to a different network than the other router, because the network types are different. Thus OSPF does not see a usable transit link between the two routers. Therefore, no routes can use that link to reach the next hop, and as a result no OSPF routes are learned.
The network type is not checked when forming OSPF adjacencies.
OSPF point-to-point network type can be configured as follows:
configure ospf add vlan
NAME area
AREA link-type point-to-point(EXOS)
interface vlan NUMBER
ip ospf network point-to-point(EOS)
References:
Thanks,
Erik
