OSPF bug?

Ondrej Feela Filip feela at ipex.cz
Fri Dec 7 18:22:05 CET 2001


On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Ondrej Feela Filip wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Mark Glines wrote:
> 
> > Hi!  We've been attempting to use bird 1.0.5 on our test network,
> > but OSPF didn't seem to be propogating correctly.  Rather, it was
> > talking amongst its peer routers properly, and propogating routes
> > correctly, but forgetting to set the gateways (which kinda defeats
> > the purpose).
> > 
> 
> Hi!
> I'm sorry that I'm answering so late. I'm quite busy now. (But good news 
> is, that one company will pay for my upgrades of Bird, so I'll have more 
> time for it.)
> 
> > For instance, we have one machine (test1, 192.168.0.254) which is
> > directly attached to 192.168.0.0/24 (obviously) and 192.168.1.0/24,
> > as well as our uplink to the internet.  Another machine
> > (192.168.0.60) is directly attached to 192.168.0.0/24 (obviously),
> > 192.168.4.0/24 and 192.168.7.0/24.
> > 
> > Once they had flooded LS's and entered OSPF "full" mode with
> > eachother, test1's routing table looked like:
> > 
> > test1:~# ip route
> > XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/27 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
> > 192.168.7.0/24 dev eth2  proto bird
> > 192.168.4.0/24 dev eth2  proto bird
> > 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.1.254
> > 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth2  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.0.254
> > default via XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX dev eth0  proto bird
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I rooted around in the source for a while, and managed to make it work.
> > Attached is the patch (which also includes a small documentation fix).
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> > This patch makes bird set gateways properly:
> > 
> > test1:~# ip route
> > XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/27 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
> > 192.168.7.0/24 via 192.168.0.60 dev eth2  proto bird
> > 192.168.4.0/24 via 192.168.0.60 dev eth2  proto bird
> > 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.1.254
> > 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth2  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.0.254
> > default via XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX dev eth0  proto bird
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Since this seems like such a silly bug and is so unlikely to be
> > overlooked (because it rendered bird's OSPF mostly useless), I have
> > to ask if we configured something wrong, or managed to mess something
> > else up.  Please also find attached one of our config files (they all
> 
> :-) No it was really bug in OSPF. Thank you for the fix. I don't 
> understand how this happened. :-(
> 
> > look pretty similar to this).  What happened?  I'd love to hear your
> > comments.
> 
> Just stupid bug in my last bugfix. :-)
> 
> > 
> > Thanks for your time,
> 
> Thank you!

And please use this attached patch. Your is not correct (ipa is not u32 
when debug in on).

Thank you again!

				Feela

> 
> > Mark
> > 
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Index: proto/ospf/rt.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home2/mj/BIRD/bird/proto/ospf/rt.c,v
retrieving revision 1.52
diff -u -r1.52 rt.c
--- proto/ospf/rt.c	21 Aug 2001 17:00:15 -0000	1.52
+++ proto/ospf/rt.c	7 Dec 2001 17:22:00 -0000
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
     else
     {
       /* Update routing table */
-      if(nf->en->nhi==NULL)
+      if(ipa_equal(nf->en->nh,ipa_from_u32(0)))
       {
         struct top_hash_entry *en=nf->en;
         struct ospf_neighbor *neigh;


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