RE: ip ospf demand circuit

From: Richard Dumoulin (Richard.Dumoulin@vanco.fr)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2005 - 12:33:52 GMT-3


Taken from the RFC: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1793.html

3.2.1. Negotiating Hello suppression

         On point-to-point demand circuits, both endpoints must agree to
         suppress the sending of Hello Packets. To ensure this
         agreement, a router sets the DC-bit in OSPF Hellos and Database
         Description Packets sent out the demand interface. Receiving
         an Hello or a Database Description Packet with the DC-bit set
         indicates agreement. Receiving an Hello with the DC-bit clear
         and also listing the router's Router ID in the body of the
         Hello message, or a Database Description Packet with the DC-bit
         clear (either one indicating bidirectional connectivity)
         indicates that the other end refuses to suppress Hellos. In
         these latter cases, the router reverts to the normal periodic
         sending of Hello Packets out the interface (see Section 9.5 of
         [1]).

         A demand point-to-point circuit need be configured in only one
         of the two endpoints (see Section 4.1). If a router
         implementing Sections 2 and 3 of this memo receives an Hello
         Packet with the DC-bit set, it should treat the point-to-point
         link as a demand circuit, making the appropriate changes to its
         Hello Processing (see Section 3.2.2) and flooding (see Section
         3.3).

         Even if the above negotiation fails, the router should continue
         setting the DC-bit in its Hellos and Database Descriptions (the
         neighbor will just ignore the bit). The router will then
         automatically attempt to renegotiate Hello suppression whenever
         the link goes down and comes back up. For example, if the
         neighboring router is rebooted with software that is capable of
         operating over demand circuits (i.e., implements Sections 2 and
         3 of this memo), a future negotiation will succeed.

         Also, even if the negotiation to suppress Hellos fails, the
         flooding modifications described in Section 3.3 are still
         performed over the link.

-- Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: simon hart [mailto:simon.hart@btinternet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:52 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: ip ospf demand circuit

This maybe a bit of a naive question but what the heck.

Which end of an ISDN link would one normally put the ip ospf demand circuit
command?

Thanks

Simon

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