Strange behaviour on OSPF network NON-broadcast

From: Gustavo Novais (gustavo.novais@novabase.pt)
Date: Sat Jul 30 2005 - 11:34:23 GMT-3


Hello,

I was trying to review the basics and attempted to do a hub and spoke
topology involving router R2 as hub and R4,R5 and R6 as spokes on a NBMA
environment, with neighbor defined and such.

My config on the hub was

interface Serial0/0
 ip address 150.50.100.2 255.255.255.0
 encapsulation frame-relay
 clockrate 256000
 no arp frame-relay
 frame-relay map ip 150.50.100.2 204
 frame-relay map ip 150.50.100.4 204 tcp header-compression
 frame-relay map ip 150.50.100.5 205
 frame-relay map ip 150.50.100.6 206
 no frame-relay inverse-arp
end

I set router ospf with spokes with priority 0 making R2 DR

R2(config-router)#neighbor 150.50.100.4 priority 0
R2(config-router)#neighbor 150.50.100.5 priority 0
R2(config-router)#neighbor 150.50.100.6 priority 0
R2(config-router)#
R2(config-router)#
R2(config-router)#
R2(config-router)#^Z
R2#
R2#
R2#
R2#
R2#
R2#
R2#
R2#
*Mar 1 00:51:05.483: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by
consolesh run | b r o
router ospf 1
 log-adjacency-changes
 area 1 nssa default-information-originate
 area 1 nssa translate type7 suppress-fa
 network 150.50.2.2 0.0.0.0 area 0
 network 150.50.10.0 0.0.0.255 area 1
 network 150.50.100.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
 network 150.50.101.4 0.0.0.3 area 0
 neighbor 150.50.100.4
 neighbor 150.50.100.5
 neighbor 150.50.100.6

On the spokes, I did

interface Serial0/0
 ip address 150.50.100.4 255.255.255.0
 encapsulation frame-relay
 clockrate 256000
 no arp frame-relay
 frame-relay map ip 150.50.100.2 402 tcp header-compression
 frame-relay map ip 150.50.100.4 402
 frame-relay map ip 150.50.100.5 402
 frame-relay map ip 150.50.100.6 402
 no frame-relay inverse-arp
!
R4#sh run | b r o
router ospf 1
 log-adjacency-changes
 area 4 stub
 network 150.50.4.4 0.0.0.0 area 0
 network 150.50.40.0 0.0.0.255 area 4
 network 150.50.100.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
 neighbor 150.50.100.2 priority 100
!

The strange thing to me, is that after election R6 (highest RID) was
elected, and configurations on running were updated automatically!

after election we have on spoke:

router ospf 1
 log-adjacency-changes
 area 4 stub
 network 150.50.4.4 0.0.0.0 area 0
 network 150.50.40.0 0.0.0.255 area 4
 network 150.50.100.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
 neighbor 150.50.100.2 priority 1
<-------------------------------------------WAS 100
!

and on hub

router ospf 1
 log-adjacency-changes
 area 1 nssa default-information-originate
 area 1 nssa translate type7 suppress-fa
 network 150.50.2.2 0.0.0.0 area 0
 network 150.50.10.0 0.0.0.255 area 1
 network 150.50.100.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
 network 150.50.101.4 0.0.0.3 area 0
 neighbor 150.50.100.4 priority 1
<---------------------------------------- I set it to 0 earlier
 neighbor 150.50.100.5 priority 1
<---------------------------------------- I set it to 0 earlier
 neighbor 150.50.100.6 priority 1
<---------------------------------------- I set it to 0 earlier
!

R2#sh ip ospf interface ser0/0
Serial0/0 is up, line protocol is up
  Internet Address 150.50.100.2/24, Area 0
  Process ID 1, Router ID 150.50.2.2, Network Type NON_BROADCAST, Cost:
64
  Transmit Delay is 1 sec, State BDR, Priority 1
  Designated Router (ID) 150.50.6.6, Interface address 150.50.100.6
  Backup Designated router (ID) 150.50.2.2, Interface address
150.50.100.2
  Timer intervals configured, Hello 30, Dead 120, Wait 120, Retransmit 5
    oob-resync timeout 120
    Hello due in 00:00:25
  Index 2/3, flood queue length 0
  Next 0x0(0)/0x0(0)
  Last flood scan length is 0, maximum is 4
  Last flood scan time is 0 msec, maximum is 4 msec
  Neighbor Count is 3, Adjacent neighbor count is 3
    Adjacent with neighbor 150.50.4.4
    Adjacent with neighbor 150.50.5.5
    Adjacent with neighbor 150.50.6.6 (Designated Router)
  Suppress hello for 0 neighbor(s)
R2#

I'm running version IOS (tm) C2600 Software (C2600-JK9O3S-M), Version
12.2(15)T16, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
c2600-jk9o3s-mz.122-15.T16.bin

Has anybody ever faced this behaviour? Is it usual? Am I missing
something here? Usually we go for point-to-point or broadcast or
something else than NBMA but in deed I'd like to try it. I'm getting
confused.



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