Neighbor state remains in exchange or loading

Vonlanthen, Elmar Elmar.Vonlanthen at united-security-providers.ch
Thu Dec 10 16:10:39 CET 2009


Hi Ondrej 

> > 2009-12-09 10:23:54 chgut1fw01 bird: Requesting 109th LSA: 
> Type: 1, ID:
> > 172.16.101.1, RT: 172.16.101.1, SN: 0x7fffffff, Age 3600
> > 2009-12-09 10:23:54 chgut1fw01 bird: Update Type: 1 ID: 
> 172.16.101.1 RT:
> > 172.16.101.1, Sn: 0x80000003 Age: 289, Sum: 19615
> ...
> > 2009-12-09 10:24:44 chgut1fw01 bird: Requesting 109th LSA: 
> Type: 1, ID:
> > 172.16.101.1, RT: 172.16.101.1, SN: 0x7fffffff, Age 3600
> > 
> > As you can see, the sequence numbers don't match. Is that 
> the problem?
> 
> These messages are useful to locate the problem. The problem is not
> really a sequence number mismatch (this might happen and it 
> is OK), but
> some subtle bugs in premature aging of LSAs (which happen if router
> receives an LSA created by its previous instance before restart). I
> found these bugs several weeks ago but i didn't know that 
> they may cause
> such problems.

That seems to fit to my problem. It happens only after restart.
Is there a workaround to prevent this behaviour?

> I hope i will fix these bugs soon.

Is there a way I can help you? Unfortunately, my C-skills are not so
good. But I could test with your modifications?

Thanks for your help.

Best regards
Elmar
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