JUNOS and BIRD OSPF ptp netmask 0.0.0.0 mismatch problem

[Alexander V. Chernikov]

On 03.05.2013 06:04, Bao Nguyen wrote:
> Hello all,
Hi.
>
> I'm running BIRD 1.3.4 with JUNOS and I ran into the issue of "netmask
> 0.0.0.0" was seen by JUNOS as it's not being sent by BIRD on a OSPF
> point-to-point link per RFC spec but JUNOS perform strict check on it.
>
> There seemed to be quite a bit of discussions about this online [1][2]
> and I'm wondering if anyone got a better alternatives then switching to
> link broadcast mode?
It seems broadcast is the only alternative.
>
> I also looked at BIRD code, it seemed like someone have applied a patch
> for a "ptp netmask" option on in April 17 to work around this issue but
Yes, I had the same problem and Ondrej merged my patch recently.
> upgrading BIRD is not an option at this point.
>
> [1]
> https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&enablesaml=yes&id=KB23533&max-yv=1&cat=M_SERIES&actp=LIST&smlogin=true
> <https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&enablesaml=yes&id=KB23533&max-yv=1&cat=M_SERIES&actp=LIST&smlogin=true>
> [2]
> http://forums.juniper.net/t5/Junos-and-Junosphere/ospf-point-to-point-interface-type-on-ethernet/td-p/39375
>
> thanks,
>
>
> -bn
> 0216331C