Bugs related to ptp links

Ondrej Filip feela at network.cz
Mon Aug 25 01:13:34 CEST 2008


Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> The code generating LSAs for ptp ospf links is buggy.
> The current behavior is that it generates
> ptp link if there is a full/ptp neighbor and
> stub link if there isn't. According to RFC 2328, the
> correct behavior is to generate stub link in both
> cases (in the first case together with ptp link).

You are true. I will fix it.

> 
> And because of buggy detection of unnumbered networks,
> for numbered networks the code creates stub links
> with 0.0.0.0/32.

OK!

> 
> The first patch corrects this behavior, but i am not
> sure what is the best behavior for unnumbered
> (ptp-address) networks. The code contains variable
> ptp_unnumbered_stub_lsa that determines whether
> unnumbered ptp links should generate stub links.
> If enabled, stub links are generated regardless
> there is a full/ptp neighbor.

OK, I will look at it. And hopefully this will go to the next release.
as well. Maybe I am too tired now, but what is the meaning of
'ln_after' variable?

> 
> The second patch makes ospf dump more informative.

OK, I will include it.

		Ondrej




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