Mailing List Archive: Status of OSPFd

Hello everyone,

I'm just now dipping my toes into using Zebra (quagga actually) and have a
few questions. I'm running Debian 'testing', using pj's snapshot 0.94
(8-6-03 snapshot) and I had no problems compiling the software.

What is the status of ospfd? I've read that it's broken/has problems and
wanted to know if it's usable or not. I've written a zebra.conf and
ospfd.conf, have both daemons running and I can connect via vty to both
w/out a problem. However, I'm getting the follow messages repeating in
syslog every few seconds:
oscar ospfd[238]: Packet[DD] [Slave]: packet duplicated.
oscar ospfd[238]: ospf_packet_dup stream 88 ospf_packet 24 size mismatch

bravo ospfd[235]: Packet[DD]: MTU is larger than [eth0:198.83.xxx.xx]'s MTU
bravo ospfd[235]: Packet[DD]: MTU is larger than [eth1:209.16.xxx.xx]'s MTU
bravo ospfd[235]: Packet[DD]: Negotiation fails. (this message only shows up
sporadically).
(eth0 and eth1 are the ip addr for bravo).

ifconfig shows the MTU size for all NICs is 1500 so I'm not sure what the
problem is. Any suggestions are most welcomed!

Thanks,
Jim

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, James Miller wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm just now dipping my toes into using Zebra (quagga actually) and
> have a few questions. I'm running Debian 'testing', using pj's
> snapshot 0.94 (8-6-03 snapshot) and I had no problems compiling the
> software.
>
> What is the status of ospfd? I've read that it's broken/has
> problems and wanted to know if it's usable or not.

its reasonably stable. zebra.org has some known problems (esp wrt
ospf md5 auth).

> oscar ospfd[238]: Packet[DD] [Slave]: packet duplicated. oscar
> ospfd[238]: ospf_packet_dup stream 88 ospf_packet 24 size mismatch

what version of gcc?

> problem is. Any suggestions are most welcomed!

make sure you have gcc-3.3.1-pre1 (its in debian unstable i think).
an earlier version of gcc in unstable had problems.

> Thanks,
> Jim

regards,
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