OSPF loading State

[Ryan Whelan]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Ryan Whelan <rcwhelan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have 2 linux machines connected to one another over the internet via
> a IPSec protected GRE tunnel.  Each of them are running OSPF from bird
> 1.3.2.
>
> The issue is that one of them will not fully peer with the other,
> unless the other is started after the one with the issue.  Is just
> stays in state 'loading' while the other machine will be in state
> 'full'.  In other words, node 2 will only go to state 'full' if node 1
> is started after node 2. If node 2 is started after node 1, it will
> sit in state 'loading' forever. Node 1 has no issues.
>
> Here is a log from the node that is failing to sync up (node 2):
> http://pastebin.com/ZjVcc1wB
>
>
> bird> show ospf neighbors
> axa0:
> Router ID       Pri          State      DTime   Interface  Router IP
> 111.222.333.444   1      loading/ptp    00:13   tun10      172.31.255.255
> bird>
>
>
>
> the config on both machines is identical
>
>
>
> protocol kernel {
>       learn;;
>        persist;
>        scan time 20;
>        export all;
> }
>
> protocol device {
>        scan time 10;
> }
>
> protocol static {
> }
>
> protocol ospf axa0 {
>        tick 1;
>        rfc1583compat yes;
>        area 0.0.0.0 {
>                stub no;
>                interface "tun*" {
>                        hello 5;
>                        retransmit 5;
>                        cost 10;
>                        transmit delay 5;
>                        dead 15;
>                        wait 50;
>                        type ptp;
>                };
>       };
> }
>

If it means anything, the machine that was stuck in 'loading' changed
to 'full' after I left it alone, but it took about 30 minutes.  Is
that expected behaviour?