FreeBSD + Quagga OSPFD issue

Thodoris S. grand at mindless.gr
Fri Jul 23 09:35:37 UTC 2010


Michal Thank you very much, the second set of commands worked, route delete and then ifconfig on the interface, is anyone have any idea on fixing this?
why FreeBSD is preferring the OSPF route instead of connected one?

On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Michal Buchtik wrote:

> Hi
> we have this problem too, see bellow
> 
> On 2010/07/22 14:55, Thodoris S. wrote:
>> Hello, i am experiencing a weird problem,
>> 
>> i have set up a FreeBSD 8.0 Release, with Quagga 0.9.15 running  ospfd and bgpd for a small network
>> the router has multiple ethernet interfaces for backup in my case 2.If i disconnect an ethernet either Physical or Logical (ifconfig em1 down)
>> when it comes up again after a while, Quagga doesnt use it as OSPF interface below i am giving you some console outputs to undestand better the issue
>> 
>> #1 show ip ospf interfaces:
>> em1 is up
>>   ifindex 2, MTU 1500 bytes, BW 0 Kbit<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
>>   Internet Address 10.10.32.34/30, Broadcast 10.10.32.35, Area 0.0.0.0
>>   MTU mismatch detection:enabled
>>   Router ID 10.10.32.39, Network Type BROADCAST, Cost: 10
>>   Transmit Delay is 1 sec, State Backup, Priority 1
>>   Designated Router (ID) 10.10.32.36, Interface Address 10.10.32.33
>>   Backup Designated Router (ID) 10.10.32.39, Interface Address 10.10.32.34
>>   Multicast group memberships: OSPFAllRouters OSPFDesignatedRouters
>>   Timer intervals configured, Hello 10s, Dead 40s, Wait 40s, Retransmit 5
>>     Hello due in 0.901s
>>   Neighbor Count is 1, Adjacent neighbor count is 1
>> 
>> 
>> #2 ifconfig em1 down
>> #3 ifconfig em1 up
>> #4 show ip ospf interfaces:
>> em1 is up
>>   ifindex 3, MTU 1500 bytes, BW 0 Kbit<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
>>   OSPF not enabled on this interface
>> 
>>   
> Check route table for prefix 10.10.32.32/30. I think, that it will be type UG1, because quagga installed it when the interface was down (ospfd deamon received it over another link).
>> Anyone has any idea on this issue? i have searched the internet and some people seem to have the same problem all with FreeBSD, Linux version dosnt have this problem, some of them speaking for a patch floating arround, but i didnt find any information on it
>> i have changed the version of quagga from 0.9.15 to 0.9.16 but not solved, i have compiled the quagga with TCP SOCKETS support but again the problem dosnt solve, the only workaround is to reboot the whole machine
>> even if i restart quagga it doesnt work.
>>   
> Workaround is to add route manually, like this:
> 
> route delete 10.10.32.32/30; route add 10.10.32.32/30 -iface em0
> or
> route delete 10.10.32.32/30; ifconfig em0 10.10.32.34/30
> 
> I think freebsd kernel could install "connected" route when interface goas up (and replace UG1 route) because connected could be preferred over dynamic route. So this seems like FreeBSD bug , instead of quagga ones.
> 
> Michal



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