OSPF "bad hello packet"

[Ondrej Feela Filip]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, James A. Crippen wrote:

> I'm getting "bad hello packet from 10.1.1.23 received: bad netmask
> 255.255.255.0" even though there's really nothing wrong with this netmask
> (I'm using 10.1.1.0/24 and 10.2.2.0/24 for some testing).

Are you sure, that all interfaces connected to network 10.1.1.0/24 have
the same netmask?

>
> Is there any reason why ospf thinks this is a bad netmask?  Should I just
> ignore it?

Probably 10.1.1.23 has a different netmask than the router running BIRD.

>
> Thanks!
> 'james
>

		Kind regards
				Feela

>

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Ondrej Feela Filip