Re: ISDN and NSSA

From: Ryan B (rbenigno@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 18:25:18 GMT-3


   
In my experience, the only time an ISDN links comes up with a properly
configured demand circuit is when there is actually information to send...
A topology change in the OSPF network should bring up the link to update the
routing tables. So, demand-circuit works as advertised.

-Ryan

----- Original Message -----
From: David Russell <drussell@tns-inc.com>
To: LASSERRE Grégory <gregory.lasserre@arche.fr>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: ISDN and NSSA

> This seems to be an unsettled issue with various posts indicating that
there
> is multicast traffic over a demand circuit while others say there isn't.
>
> I am running 12.0(2a) code and do not see the problem with either the RIP
> redist in the ASBR or when both routers are in area 0.
>
> Greg's last post retracts his observation of LSA broadcasts. He had a
> mutual redistribution routing loop (ouch!).
>
> Does anyone have a test case that does cause LSAs to be sent over a demand
> circuit?
>
>
> Dave Russell
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LASSERRE Grégory <gregory.lasserre@arche.fr>
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Cc: 'Earl Aboytes' <earl@linkline.com>
> Date: Sunday, March 12, 2000 1:22 PM
> Subject: RE: ISDN and NSSA
>
>
>
> I also encounter the problem, but in my case Type 5 LSAs are keeping my
> circuit up
> (RIP redistributed in OSPF by my ASBR - normal Area).
>
> If i remove the rip redistribution from my ASBR, the circuit goes down
after
> a while,
> and then the demand circuit works fine.
>
> Here are the log :
>
> OSPF: Generate external LSA 113.78.220.2, mask 255.255.255.255, type 5,
age
> 3600, metric 16777215, seq 0x80000054
> OSPF: Start timer for Nbr 2.2.2.2 after adding 113.78.220.2 type 5 caller
> 0x3396AE6
> OSPF: Sending update on Dialer1 to 224.0.0.5
> OSPF: Send Type 5, LSID 113.78.220.2, Adv rtr 10.10.10.10, age 3600, seq
> 0x80000054
> IP: s=113.78.220.10 (local), d=224.0.0.5 (Dialer1), len 84, sending
> broad/multicast
>
> Does anybody knows a workaround to this problem ?
>
> Best regards.
> Greg.
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De: Earl Aboytes [SMTP:earl@linkline.com]
> > Date: dimanche 12 mars 2000 10:54
> > À: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Objet: ISDN and NSSA
> >
> > I thought that I would share something that I recently discovered. I
hope
> > this isn't obvious to the rest of you.
> >
> > If you are injecting a distance vector routing protocol into OSPF and
ISDN
> > is using OSPF as its routing protocol, a multicast with address
224.0.0.5
> > (all spf routers) will keep your circuit up forever. Even with the ip
ospf
> > demand-circuit command this still occurs. OSPF sees these external
routes
> > and floods them as Type 7 LSA's.
> >
> > My first thoughts were to configure the offending areas as NSSAs. Area
1
> > is one of the areas but has a virtual link running through it. Is this
a
> > concern? The other area is area 0 which cannot be configured as a NSSA.
> > I was left with no choice but to configure 224.0.0.5 as uninteresting
> > traffic. Am I right?
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Earl Aboytes
> > Senior Technical Consultant
> > GTE-Managed Solutions
> > 800-483-5325 x8817
> > earl.aboytes@telops.gte.com
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >



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