Re: OSPF LSA type 3 filtering

From: Marko Milivojevic <markom_at_ipexpert.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 13:05:49 -0800

Oh you're so going to make me lab this up in Juniper :-).

I don't think IOS will bounce, but there's been some time since I
tried changing MTU on an interface with a working adjacency.

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Marko Milivojevic - CCIE #18427 (SP R&S)
Senior CCIE Instructor - IPexpert
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:46 PM, rakesh madupu <raaki.88_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey John,
>
> I am pretty sure Ospf Bounces in Juniper if we change MTU on an interface,
> even 3560's it makes sense to have "ip ospf mtu ignore" or system mtu ignore
> to deliberately hold ospf Adj's, I think MTU along with other parameters
> must be matched for Ospf to stay up
>
> Regards
> Rakesh M
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 12:47 AM, John Neiberger <jneiberger_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I ran into that ISIS MTU issue at work this week on a production link. I
>> needed to increase the MTU on a link that was running OSPF and ISIS. When I
>> changed the MTU on one side, ISIS got a little angry with me until I
>> increased the MTU on the other side. The reason is that ISIS has a Padding
>> TLV wherein it pads its hello packets to the full MTU size. That's how it
>> insures that there is no mismatch. If one side has a larger MTU, that packet
>> will be dropped when it reaches the other side. Once I fixed both ends, ISIS
>> was happy again.
>>
>> Interestingly, OSPF also bounced, which I thought was odd. In IOS, if you
>> already have an adjacency and routing is stable, you can change the MTU
>> without causing the adjacency to bounce. However, I was doing this in IOS XR
>> and it clearly bounced OSPF when I changed the MTU. I asked around on the
>> cisco-nsp list, but so far no one knows why OSPF would bounce like that in
>> IOS XR. One person thought that perhaps since it is a hardware forwarding
>> platform, interface buffer memory had to be reallocated after the MTU
>> change, but that was just a guess. If anyone knows, feel free to end the
>> mystery.  lol  I know it won't bounce the adjacency in IOS, at least on the
>> hardware and images I tested it on. And that makes sense to me. The MTU is
>> not in the hello packets in OSPF; it's in the DBD packets.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Paul Negron <negron.paul_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I do like that feature.
>>>
>>> I also love the way ISIS handles MTU mismatch which is another big
>>> problem we
>>> have in real networks.
>>> You do not just simply ignore it as you do with OSPF.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>> Paul Negron
>>> CCIE# 14856
>>> negron.paul_at_gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 4, 2013, at 1:17 PM, Yuri Bank <yuribank_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Except that with the IS-IS the hostname is carried in each routers LSP
>>> > (hostname TLV), so there is no dependency on DNS, or manual
>>> > configuration
>>> > on the routers required (Which is very nice imho).
>>> >
>>> > -Yuri
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Marko Milivojevic
>>> <markom_at_ipexpert.com>wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> You mean the output you'd get if you used "ip ospf name-lookup" ;-)
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Marko Milivojevic - CCIE #18427 (SP R&S)
>>> >> Senior CCIE Instructor - IPexpert
>>> >>
>>> >> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:07 PM, rakesh madupu <raaki.88_at_gmail.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>> For me,  I love isis in our customer deployments because it shows
>>> >>> neighboring devices names which is peers with, specially with RR's
>>> >>> names
>>> >> ,
>>> >>> life get so much simpler instead of reading an Ip address and
>>> >> associating it
>>> >>> again :)
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Marko Milivojevic
>>> >>> <markom_at_ipexpert.com>
>>> >>> wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> IS-IS supports multiple routed protocols, i.e. IPv4 and IPv6,
>>> >>>> whereas
>>> >>>> OSPF doesn't.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Also, in the time when MPLS-TE was emerging as a technology, IS-IS
>>> >>>> behavior to flood unknown TLVs instead of resetting adjacencies when
>>> >>>> it receives them (OSPF does that when it receives an unknown LSA).
>>> >>>> meant a very controlled deployment of new technologies. The fact
>>> >>>> it's
>>> >>>> not IP, also has some security benefits (cannot be remotely
>>> >>>> attacked).
>>> >>>> Etc.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> What Joseph said is... not quite the reason, since IS-IS also has a
>>> >>>> requirement for a contiguous L2 area.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> --
>>> >>>> Marko Milivojevic - CCIE #18427 (SP R&S)
>>> >>>> Senior CCIE Instructor - IPexpert
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Imran Ali <immrccie_at_gmail.com>
>>> >>>> wrote:
>>> >>>>> marko i need to know why they use  is-is over ospf
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Marko Milivojevic <
>>> >> markom_at_ipexpert.com>
>>> >>>>> wrote:
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> In reality, for this purpose, IS-IS and OSPF are pretty much the
>>> >>>>>> same
>>> >>>>>> (Type 2 vs Pseudonode LSP). They both use a very similar approach
>>> >>>>>> to
>>> >>>>>> solve the same calculation problem.
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> Carriers tend to use IS-IS for one other reason (to some extent
>>> >>>>>> remedied by OSPFv3). This is a separate discussion though.
>>> >>>>>>
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