RE: Fastest OSPF neighbor up on a link

From: Marko Milivojevic (markom@vodafone.is)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2007 - 11:25:58 ART


Combination of point-to-point network type and shorter hello timers will be the fastest way to bring this up. There are some drawbacks with these fast hellos, especially if full BGP tables are involved (BGP convergence may make CPU's too busy to respond to hello's causing OSPF adjacencies to be broken, in turn causing BGP to drop, etc.).

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Geert Nijs
Sent: 13. jznm 2007 07:27
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Fastest OSPF neighbor up on a link

Hello all,
 
I am looking for the fastest possible neighbor up time on a simple p-t-p fiber link between switches:
 
SW1(core) ------- fiber ------ SW2
 
 
The link is configured as a Layer3 link and has a /31 subnet mask.
However, by default, OSPF uses the broadcast network type for this link, and therefore starts DR/BDR elections.
I now have the following options, i want the fastest possible "neighbor up" or "neighbor down".
Does Cisco have any recommendation regarding this ?
 
 
1) core switch is forced DR, edge switch is forced BDR
 
SW2
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/28
 no switchport
 ip address 10.56.158.11 255.255.255.254
 ip ospf dead-interval minimal hello-multiplier 4
 ip ospf priority 1
 carrier-delay msec 0

SW1
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/28
 no switchport
 ip address 10.56.158.11 255.255.255.254
 ip ospf dead-interval minimal hello-multiplier 4
 ip ospf priority 255
 carrier-delay msec 0

 
 
2) core switch is forced DR, edge switch is forced DROTHER
 
SW2
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/28
 no switchport
 ip address 10.56.158.11 255.255.255.254
 ip ospf dead-interval minimal hello-multiplier 4
 ip ospf priority 0
 carrier-delay msec 0

SW1
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/28
 no switchport
 ip address 10.56.158.11 255.255.255.254
 ip ospf dead-interval minimal hello-multiplier 4
 ip ospf priority 255
 carrier-delay msec 0

 
3) completely eliminate DR/BDR election and put interface in p-t-p mode
 
SW2
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/28
 no switchport
 ip address 10.56.158.11 255.255.255.254
 ip ospf dead-interval minimal hello-multiplier 4
 ip ospf network point-to-point
 carrier-delay msec 0

SW1
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/28
 no switchport
 ip address 10.56.158.11 255.255.255.254
 ip ospf dead-interval minimal hello-multiplier 4
 ip ospf network point-to-point
 carrier-delay msec 0



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