I have two routers in the same AS (a Juniper and a Cisco) that are running both BGP and OSPF.  These two routers are separated by an intermediate OSPF-only router. I have established an IBGP relationship between the Juniper and Cisco router and they are passing BGP routes between themselves.  The Cisco router also maintains an EBGP relationship where it is receiving various external routes and are marking up the local preference attribute to 400.  The Cisco has the "next-hop-self" associated with the neighbor statement facing the Juniper.  The Juniper sees the external route with the local preference of 400, and knows that the "next hop" to get there is the interface address of the Cisco. Traffic destined for the external route hits the Juniper.  Presumably, the Juniper does a lookup and sees the best BGP route is held by the Cisco and sends traffic *towards* the Cisco. HOWEVER, going from the Juniper to the Cisco, on the way to the Cisco, the intermediate OSPF-only router evaluates its own routing table and since it doesn't have the final external destination route in its routing table, decides to subject the traffic to its local default route, which *isn't* the Cisco.  Once again, the OSPF-only router has an OSPF route to the "next-hop" Cisco, but it doesn't have an OSPF route to the final destination of the original packet. Juniper TAC maintains that the Juniper is doing the correct thing in sending the traffic out the proper interface towards the Cisco, and it's the OSPF-only router that is the problem.  And...it IS true that if I add a static route from the OSPF-only router to the Cisco for that external route, everything works. Why does the intermediate OSPF-only router need to know a route to the final destnation of the packet?  Am I missing something? ... View more

Can someone help point me to information on how to configure Cisco Jabber for iPad to use the free cisco jabber video beta site? Thanks! ... View more

I recently set up SIP and H.323 DNS SRV records for my domain pointing to my VCS and have been testing using my Free Jabber.com account.  It seems that the free jabber.com account gets "hung" in certain situations.  This morning my initial test call connects fine from Free Jabber to my Polycom codec, and I end the call.  I wait for a few seconds and make another call from Free Jabber to the same codec.  Again, that one connects fine.  My THIRD call to the codec doesn't even reach my VCS.  I have no logs of the call making it to my VCS.  Also, I also am not able to reach any other connections in my domain from Free Jabber, and have no logs of the attemps even reaching my VCS. The only three things I can conclude are: 1) A DNS round-robin where one or more of the DNS servers can't resolve my target DNS domain for SIP/H.323. (unlikely) 2) Somehow and for some reason I've exhaused all of the possible outbound connections for my Free Jabber account.  This could perhaps be a bug in that the tear-down of sessions with the Polycom codec, and it doesn't happen correctly, leading to resource exhaustion of my client?? 3) I've exceeded some connection rate threshold for my outbound Free Jabber account, and I've been put in "time out" temporarily. I've logged out of free Jabber and will re-try the scenario at the office and post results. Has anyone else experienced anything similar?  Is there any way to troubleshoot this further?  I'm really trying to "sell" the idea of Jabber to my management team, but until it works reliably, it's a no-go. Thoughts? Thanks, Matt ... View more

Earlier this month I was able to dial endpoints registered to my VCS from my free Jabber account by dialing in the form: user@ip_address_of_my_vcs I'm now not able to do this.  The calls aren't even reaching my VCS now.  Has there been a recent config/security change? Other than registering my VCS in DNS properly (which I'm in the process of doing), is there a work-around or verification that this is a config change on free Jabber? ... View more

Should I be able to configure a DNS zone in VCS to lookup my username at ciscojabbervideo.com and dial me via SIP, or is Ciscojabbervideo.com for dial-out only? ... View more