RE: OSPF router-id not from loopback

From: Cecil Wilson (Cecil.Wilson@flextronics.com)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2007 - 18:27:27 ART


Hello Group

 This changes the topic abit, but are there any downside to using

the same router ID's for both OSPF and BGP?

Eg

 router bgp 100

 router-id 1.1.1.1

And

Router ospf 1

Router-id 1.1.1.1

Thanks, in advance

Cecil G. Wilson

IT Network Services

Office: (901) 215-2710

Cell: (901) 601-6201

cecil.wilson@flextronics.com

-----Original Message-----

From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of

Sadiq Yakasai

Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 1:43 PM

To: ccielab

Subject: OSPF router-id not from loopback

Guys,

So I am configurring OSPF but I have not been in the habit of putting my

router-id as my loopback interface. I am running into abit of a

confusion here:

For e.g:

R1: router-id 1.1.1.1

R2: router-id 2.2.2.2

...... and so on....

SW2(config)#do sh ip ospf datab

            OSPF Router with ID (8.8.8.8) (Process ID 1)

                Router Link States (Area 1)

Link ID ADV Router Age Seq# Checksum Link

count

5.5.5.5 5.5.5.5 275 0x80000029 0x00BD69 1

8.8.8.8 8.8.8.8 358 0x8000002C 0x001F32 2

                Summary ASB Link States (Area 1)

Link ID ADV Router Age Seq# Checksum

6.6.6.6 5.5.5.5 89 0x80000001 0x006667

So why I am seeing 5.5.5.5, 8.8.8.8, 6.6.6.6 as link IDs? I would have

thot that shud actually be the network ID (routes) and the ADV Router

shud have the router-id of the advertizing router.

What are the caveats of using router-id naming conventions of this sort

please? It is safest to just use the loopback addresses as opposed to

using an arbitrary value?

Thanks

Sadiq



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