Well then let's involve the Service Provider...Is there a common SP involved??? What's there take??? How I've had my days of "OUR network is fine" it's "Your problem"...LOL...Why do issue's seem to disappear after the SP inquiry??? I change SP's and "MY Problem" never returns!!! :-) Go figure...
----- Original Message ----- From: "The Long and Winding Road" To: Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 9:23 PM Subject: Rainy Days, Sundays, and OSPF [7:59269] > always get me down. > > I had to cover for someone who is out on vacation. Simple customer network, > hub and 6 spokes over frame relay. no biggie, except the installation people > couldn't get it to work, so they had to call in the designer or the poor > fool covering for him. > > hub site uses a single subinterface, and manual frame mapping. each spoke > uses the physical interface. > > don't get me started. I would have done multiple point-to-point > subinterfaces, and I would have knee jerked to EIGRP, but that's another > story. Besides, the customer was probably a cheapskate, and didn't want to > pay the few extra bucks a month for more PVC's at the hub. > > In any case, the configs looked good to me and I was able to mock something > up in my home lab. ospf network type point-to-multipoint on all interfaces > and the hub site subinterface. works like a charm. > > however, in the customer network, two of the spoke sites just would not come > up or form ospf neighbor relationships. all the frame mappings were ok. I > could ping from any router to any other router. so what gives? when I > checked the debugs on the spoke sites that were failing, I could see an > error about the link going down every time I put an ospf network > point-to-multipoint command on the interface. as soon as I changed the ospf > network type to broadcast, the link came up and adjacencies formed. > > I checked CCO and did not find anything in particular. There is a bug listed > for ospf point-to-multipoint and unnumbered interfaces. I called TAC, but no > help there. > > this got me to wondering if anyone has run into anything like this before? > > Chuck > > > -- > TANSTAAFL > "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch" Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=59272&t=59269 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
