09-20-2008 04:06 AM - edited 03-06-2019 01:29 AM
Hello,
I have service provider between my two sites and ospf doesnt seems to work..
Service-provider confirms that OSPF is enabled on the DATA-link provided between two sites...
Is there a way to check if the ospf is getting blocked at the service provider...
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09-20-2008 05:09 AM
do u have niehbor or network ospf command configured on the interface level?
is it point to point
or point to multipoint?
have u checked the DLCIs and the frame-relay maps configured correctly?
if u use static map to DLCIs make sure that frame-relay invers arp is disabled
09-20-2008 04:13 AM
debug ip ospf packet
To display OSPF packet information
debug ip ospf events
To display information regarding OSPF events such as the forming of adjacencies, Hello packets, LSA flooding, Designated Router (DR) selection, and shortest path first (SPF) calculations. If an OSPF neighbor relationship is not being formed between two routers, then this command can be used to determine the problem
if helpful Rate
09-20-2008 04:59 AM
Hi
Just wanted to know is it a MPLS network in between
09-20-2008 05:04 AM
its a frame-relay network in between
09-20-2008 05:09 AM
do u have niehbor or network ospf command configured on the interface level?
is it point to point
or point to multipoint?
have u checked the DLCIs and the frame-relay maps configured correctly?
if u use static map to DLCIs make sure that frame-relay invers arp is disabled
09-20-2008 06:42 AM
Ah - have you done anything specific to configure OSPF? FR is non-broadcast as far as OSPF is concerned. That means as defaut no hellos will be sent. You have three choices on how to make it work.
The way I would do it is by configuring the neighbors statically. That will then unicast hellos and away you go.
The next option is to configure under the (sub)interface ip ospf net broad or ip ospf point-to-point. Either will let OSPFsend Hellos to the all OSPF address.
It is always worth confirming you have IP connectivity first!
09-20-2008 10:06 AM
Amin
We could give better answers if we knew some things about the topology of your network and if you would post the configuration of the interfaces and of OSPF on both routers.
There are quite a number of things that might keep OSPF from working over this connection. Some of them are frame relay maps that do not include the broadcast parameter, mismatched IP addressing (subnets), mismatched area assignement, problems with authentication, passive interfaces, mismatched area types. If you give us more information to work with we might be able to identify the problem better.
HTH
Rick
09-20-2008 10:27 AM
Paul:
I never quite understood why OSPF does not send Hellos over an NBMA network by default.
Can you explain that?
Thanks
Victor
09-20-2008 11:39 PM
hi victor
OSPF treats an NBMA network like any other broadcast network such as Ethernet. Because of this, OSPF thinks the network has broadcast capabilities even though it does not. This lack of a broadcast capability necessitates the use of the neighbor command to establish an OSPF neighbor. Prior to the introduction of the ip ospf network interface commands
ip ospf network non-broadcast
OSPF sends Hello packets and other protocol packets as multicast. If the network does not support multicast or you want OSPF to communicate with neighbors using unicast, use this command. The neighbor command is required if the network is configured as non-broadcast
hope this helpful
09-22-2008 12:06 AM
Quite simple really. Hellos are used (among other things) for neighbour discovery. That means they need to be broadcast, as the point is the router does not know where to send them.
Networks like Frame relay and X25 are non-broadcast - the network itself does not have a broadcast mechanism/address like ethernet does, so, by default a hello cannot be broadcast. The way it used to work is that you had a simple mapping (statically configured) of this address down that DLCI. Inverse Arp allowed that to be autoconfigured. What also came was the possibility to add "broadcast" to a map, which would allow a packet that would normally be broadcast to be sent according tho that map.
With that present, configuring the OSPF network type as broadcast on an interface let OSPF send broadcasts, and the FR interface to forward them appropriately.
09-20-2008 10:59 AM
I think you have to work with the service provider , ask him if he is seeing the ospf routing table at the last hop between the sites , if so then start looking at things at your end . Also make sure your mtu sizes match on each end of the link .
09-20-2008 11:31 PM
Thanks to all for the help...
I have the following input for all of you...
<1> do u have niehbor or network ospf command configured on the interface level? (NO)
<2> point to point? ( YES )
<3>have u checked the DLCIs and the frame-relay maps configured correctly? (YES) - IP reachability is there..
<4> if u use static map to DLCIs make sure that frame-relay invers arp is disabled ( YES )
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On the interface I have the following config
interface Serial0/0/0
no ip address
encapsulation frame-relay IETF
frame-relay lmi-type A100a
!
interface Serial0/0/0.1 point-to-point
ip address 172.20.18.10 255.255.255.252
frame-relay interface-dlci 16
09-20-2008 11:40 PM
Amin
can give us siomle topolgy of urs and ur router config as well
09-20-2008 11:57 PM
Amin
use the following links as a refrence
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094051.shtml
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_configuration_example09186a0080094054.shtml
good luck
09-21-2008 12:49 AM
Thanks Marwan for the useful Link...
I will double-check all again.
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