OSPFv3 and logging (debug)

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Tue Dec 10 12:44:55 CET 2013


On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 02:49:20PM +0400, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote:
>> Although adding an iface scope to link-local addresses helps a bit,
>> link-local addresses are still confusing when there are many neighbors
>> on one iface.
> Yes, definitely.
>>
>> I am thinking about replacing IPs with router IDs as a primary neighbor
>> description in most OSPF log messages. Any comments/opinions to such
>> change?
> Router id is much better identifier, yes. However it is worth adding  
> interface name as well (at least if given OSPF instance has several  
> different interfaces).

Yes, something like 'neighbor X.X.X.X on ethX'.

> Just for history purposes, what others currently do:

Thanks for the review.

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