Delete your loopback, reload the router and tell us how well your virtual
links work. :)
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Eric Fairfield
CCIE #6413
"Oleg Mazurov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Howard C. Berkowitz" wrote:
> >
> > >"Howard C. Berkowitz" wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > > The latter is wrong. The order of selection is:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> 1. Numerically highest IP addresss on a loopback interface, when
> > >> >> there are multiple loopback addresses.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> 2. IP address on the loopback address when only a single
loopback
> > >> >>is defined.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> 3. Numerically highest IP address on an active physical (or
> > >> >>logical other than
> > >> >> loopback address)--active as in no shutdown
> > >> >
> > >> >I have a strong feeling that p.2 doesn't make any sense.
> > >>
> > >> Point 2 should read "on the loopback interface" Is that your
concern?
> > >>
> > >
> > >When only a single loopback interface is defined, it's address is the
> > >highest of available loopback addresses, right?
> > >
> > >BTW, p.1 is wrong for ciscos. When multiple IP addresses are defined on
> > >a loopback interface, OSPF takes only primary address of it and ignores
> > >the secondaries.
> >
> > Who said anything about secondary addresses?
> >
>
> I thought you did. Since it's highly possible that the version of
> English language I studied at school is different from yours, we just
> simply don't understand each other. However, since you newer know who
> your reader is, stating the rules as short as possible is always a good
> idea. In this particular case I would say "RID is numerically highest
> addresss on a loopback interface, if there are any loopbacks, and
> numerically highest address on an active physical or subinterface
> otherwise".
>
> BTW, if we are still talking about ciscos, the above statement is true
> only for the takeoff situation. At flight you can add/delete loopbacks,
> this won't change the RID. Unfortunately, I don't have enough spares to
> check what happens if you delete the RID-defining loopback on the
> router, then create a RID-defining loopback with the same address on the
> other router and then launch OSPF on it.
>
> /felis
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