Sorry its so late.... i do not see it being shutdown: Serial2/1 is up, line protocol is up Hardware is M4T Internet address is 10.13.2.2/30 MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1544 Kbit/sec, DLY 20000 usec, reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255 Encapsulati...

Do the source and destination subnet masks need to match the tunnel subnet mask?

HAHA... Maybe not..The tunnel protocol is now up, but the routers still cannot ping each other

I found that ECHO 4 was not config'd for Area 0.. I changed it and now we are looking good

I am unsure about this point: - If the point to point subnets between the routers is being advertised under the ospf process into the vrf.