Hi! I really appreciate your time on this.
I have joined a local internet peering group hence the need for OSPF,
apparently the resulting routing table is huge and no way to do it via
static routes. The people upstream from me use BSD and configured their
ospf on their Cisco router (which I don't have) hence they are not much
help to me on RH5 (though they are keen to help where they can).
I have a suggested gated.conf from them which I am starting to understand,
it's more the RH5 issues that I need to deal with right now. One entry in
the log that bothers me is "task_get_proto: getprotobyname("ospf") failed,
using proto 89"
>From there it appears to start installing routes but then starts repeating
over and over about a source gateway not being on the same net. I have
sent a copy of the log to the ISP for a perusal.
It's also issues like getting confirmation that I should remove routed etc
that would help me here.
>From what I know once I get this running I can basically forget about it
and let it all go about it's work.
Willie
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On 06/04/98, at 13:31, Stephen Schaefer-NCS Sr SE wrote:
>OSPF and gated were not designed for casual use. Do find some more
>extended description of OSPF, if not the ones I recommended.
>
>To summarize the beginning of chapter 5 of ``Managing IP Networks with
>Cisco Routers'', OSPF does not become appropriate until your network
>becomes somewhat complex, something past 5 subnets. If you participate
>in an organization whose network administrators have chosen OSPF, then
>your best source of information will be those network administrators:
there
>will be all sorts of organization specific aspects of OSPF that you will
>have to keep consistent with the rest of the organization, e.g., area
>identifiers and bandwidth quantification conventions.
>
>For a simple network, static routing is best. Specifically, if this ppp
>connection is your only connection to the larger organization, and you
>don't need to advertise multiple networks behind that connection, do not
>use OSPF. Use static routing, with the address of the other end of the
>ppp connection as the default route. Leave the OSPF headaches to the
>network admins on the other end.
>
>Concerning your specific question w.r.t. OSPF and multicast, include in
>gated.conf:
>
>define <remote-ppp-ip-address> pointopoint <local-ppp-ip-address>
multicast;
>
>and have your ppp startup scripts include
>
>route add -net 240.0.0.0 gw <local-ppp-ip-address> metric 0
>
>I don't believe your suggested use of ifconfig is useful.
>
> - Stephen
>
>Willie Twonk writes:
>> Thanks for the advice, but I want to get it working not write a thesis
on
>> it.
>>
>> Perhaps you could answer a few questions that will help me along that
path?
>>
>> I gather I need to get ospf working on the interface (ppp0). I have
seen
>> no mention of how to get that to happen and the question has been raised
>> "does Linux support ospf on a ppp connection?". The people I am
connecting
>> to run BSD.
>>
>> I also gather I need to have multicast on that inetrface which I can do
>> with
>> ifconfig ppp0 multicast broadcast -pointopoint
>> or is there a better way?
>>
>> Any constructive assistance much appreciated :-)
>>
>> Willie
>>
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>>
>> On 3/04/98, at 13:31, Stephen Schaefer-NCS Sr SE wrote:
>>
>> >To learn about OSPF (and other protocols) I recommend chapters 5 and 6
of
>> >``Managing IP Networks with Cisco Routers'' by Scott M. Ballew, from
>> >O'Reilly and Associates. If you want every hideous detail, there's
>> >RFC1583. Once you understand what you want your routing protocols to
do,
>> >the gated man pages should be intelligible, but they will be useless
until
>> >then.
>> >
>> > - Stephen
>>
>
>
>
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