OSPF RFC compliance issue?

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:12:10PM +0200, Aragon Gouveia wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> After a lot more experimenting I have things working, and a better  
> understanding of what was up.
>
> The bizarre link information in the Router LSA turns out to be normal if  
> the link is unnumbered.  PtP interfaces are considered to be unnumbered  
> if their netmask is 255.255.255.255 (error?).  That netmask seems to be  
> the only option with Linux pppd, but writing an ip-up script that  
> changes it after the link is established fixes things up.
>
> The other side of the story is that MikroTik RouterOS does not support  
> unnumbered OSPF interfaces!
>
> Hope this noise is useful to someone in future. :)

Hello

This is well known issue:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bird-users@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/msg02187.html

We will 'fix' that in the next version, see this commit:
https://git.nic.cz/redmine/projects/bird/repository/revisions/6cadbf325bfcf25a04d869778abb443f9e1b6119

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