Well, that does make sense, now that you mention it. (OSPF sending multicast Hellos on a serial interface). OSPF uses Hellos as a keepalive, not just for establishing adjacencies.
Notice, that your reply is still hard to read because we can't tell what you wrote and what I wrote. But if you're reading and writing e-mail from a Web page, I could see how that could happen. It's not a big deal. Thanks for the reply. Priscilla At 09:15 PM 1/14/02, s vermill wrote: >Good question. The IBM 6611 does bridging for one thing. The other hint was >that it was attempting to send an OSPF Hello on a serial interface. Does >OSPF do that? How does it establish adjacency to a neighbor router on a >WAN? On a point-to-point network, I figured it just knew who its neighbor >was. > >On a non-broadcast, multiple-access network, such as Frame Relay, you >normally configured the neighbor command. > >I've only seen the OSPF multicast Hellos on LANs, (but I can't afford a WAN >Sniffer anymore! ;-) > >Gurus? Help? Thanks. > >Priscilla > > >Priscilla, > >I was fairly certain that OSPF exchanges hellos on serial interfaces. I >turned on OSPF on a router in my lab and then turned on debug ip packet. In >deed, hellos with a destination address of 224.0.0.5 are going out all >interfaces - including serial. > > >P.S. Anyone seeing this may be confused because you didn't include the >original message. PLEASE, people, reply with the body of the message in the >reply. We work in connectionless, stateless mode. How do you expect anyone >to easily connect this to the discussion about a router failing to forward >a packet on a PPP link to an IBM 6611. Hello????? > > >I am fairly new around here. It appears that a lot of folks participate in >this forum via a list. I have been doing so via the web page, so I am not >familiar with what the rest of you see. Did I do it right this time? > > > > > >Regards, > >Scott ________________________ Priscilla Oppenheimer http://www.priscilla.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=31945&t=31916 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
