RE: HSRP OSPF [7:50626]

2002-08-04 Thread Kris Keen

Your hosts use HSRP, to set the HOST ip default to the HSRP virtual


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RE: HSRP OSPF [7:50626]

2002-08-04 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer

Gil Shulman wrote:
 
 Hi all, 
 
 I know that I asked this question in the past, but I still have
 some problem
 with this issue.
 What I am trying to do is as follows:
 
Site A|
 Site B   
   
 __802.1q
 _  |_   | _
 _|_
 
 |  SW-L3 |--|  SW - L2 |   | |  SW - L3
 |-|   SW - L2|
 ||--|_|   |
 ||-|_|
  // |
 /  /  
 //  |
 / /
//   |
 Vlan2//Vlan3
  /  Vlan3  / /
 /
Vlan 2   //
 /  /
   /   /
 /  /
   _/__/
 /__/
   | ||
 |
   |Host A
 | |
 Host B  | 
   |__|
 |___|
 
 
 The L-3 at site A and B holds two HSRP IP addresses for each
 Vlan, Vlan 2 
 Vlan 3.
 Host A  B don't hold a static default gateway configuration,
 they are
 running an OSPF process and should learn their default gateway
 IP address
 via OSPF advertisements.

Is it custom software or something? What ARE Host A and Host B? In general,
IP hosts don't learn the default gateway from a routing protocol. AppleTalk
and DECnet work that way. And a Novell IPX host learns about a router from
the GetNearestServer interaction. But IP generally doesn't work that way.
Instead, you manually configure a default gateway (or let the host learn it
via DHCP). This has the obvious disadvantage that the default gateway could
go down. That's why HSRP was invented. HSRP deals with the first hop
workstation-to-router connection, in the control plane. OSPF and routing
protocols deal with router-to-router paths in the management plane.

A host can also learn about other routers through ICMP redirects. On a PC,
you can isuse a route print command to verify whether a host has learned
more than one way out, i.e. more than one workstation-to-router connection.

Another alternative for IP workstation-to-router communication is the Router
Discovery Protocol (RDP). RFC 1256 specifies the RDP extension to ICMP. With
RDP, each router periodically multicasts an ICMP router advertisement packet
from each of its interfaces, announcing the IP address of that interface.
Workstations discover the addresses of their local routers simply by
listening for advertisements, in a similar fashion to the method AppleTalk
workstations use to discover the address of a router.

When a workstation starts up, it can multicast an ICMP router solicitation
packet to ask for immediate advertisements, rather than wait for the next
periodic advertisement to arrive.

Now, you may have a custom operating system or custom software that doesn't
behave in the normal IP way, in which case, you need to tell us more about
your situation.

 The question is, how can I advertise an HSRP IP address via
 OSPF routing
 protocol.
 I have been trying to achieve it by using the
 default-information originate
 always but the default gateway which the hosts gets is the
 real IP address
 of the interface.

Perhaps the IOS developers never considered this a requirement and never
made it possible to advertise the virtual HSRP address in an OSPF packet,
since they solve two different problems. There may be a workaround, but I
can't find one.

Once again, I have to ask, what ARE these hosts? If they can talk OSPF, why
don't you just let them use OSPF? OSPF can be designed to support the
redundancy that you require. OSPF has support for quick convergence. HSRP
solved a different problem, which was that IP, despite good routing
protocols, didn't support quick convergence for the workstation-to-router
first-hop problem.

Priscilla

 
 Help will be most appreciated.
 
 Cheers,
 Gil

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RE: HSRP OSPF [7:50626]

2002-08-04 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer

I thought of one workaround but I don't know if it would work. Use a
loopback interface. Perhaps OSPF would use the address in a way that would
meet your needs. Then, would IOS let you say that the HSRP address is the
loopback address also?? That's the part that I don't have time to test.

It may be an off the wall suggestion, but your question is sort of off the
wall too!? ;-)

Priscilla

Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote:
 
 Gil Shulman wrote:
  
  Hi all, 
  
  I know that I asked this question in the past, but I still
 have
  some problem
  with this issue.
  What I am trying to do is as follows:
  
 Site A|
  Site B   

  __802.1q
  _  |_   | _
  _|_
  
  |  SW-L3 |--|  SW - L2 |   | |  SW -
 L3
  |-|   SW - L2|
  ||--|_|   |
  ||-|_|
   // |
  //  
  //  |
  /   /
 //   |
  Vlan2//Vlan3
   /  Vlan3  /   /
  /
 Vlan 2   //
  /  /
/   /
  /  /
_/__/
  /__/
|   ||
  |
|Host A
  | |
  Host B  | 
|__|
  |___|
  
  
  The L-3 at site A and B holds two HSRP IP addresses for each
  Vlan, Vlan 2 
  Vlan 3.
  Host A  B don't hold a static default gateway configuration,
  they are
  running an OSPF process and should learn their default gateway
  IP address
  via OSPF advertisements.
 
 Is it custom software or something? What ARE Host A and Host B?
 In general, IP hosts don't learn the default gateway from a
 routing protocol. AppleTalk and DECnet work that way. And a
 Novell IPX host learns about a router from the GetNearestServer
 interaction. But IP generally doesn't work that way. Instead,
 you manually configure a default gateway (or let the host learn
 it via DHCP). This has the obvious disadvantage that the
 default gateway could go down. That's why HSRP was invented.
 HSRP deals with the first hop workstation-to-router connection,
 in the control plane. OSPF and routing protocols deal with
 router-to-router paths in the management plane.
 
 A host can also learn about other routers through ICMP
 redirects. On a PC, you can isuse a route print command to
 verify whether a host has learned more than one way out, i.e.
 more than one workstation-to-router connection.
 
 Another alternative for IP workstation-to-router communication
 is the Router Discovery Protocol (RDP). RFC 1256 specifies the
 RDP extension to ICMP. With RDP, each router periodically
 multicasts an ICMP router advertisement packet from each of its
 interfaces, announcing the IP address of that interface.
 Workstations discover the addresses of their local routers
 simply by listening for advertisements, in a similar fashion to
 the method AppleTalk workstations use to discover the address
 of a router.
 
 When a workstation starts up, it can multicast an ICMP router
 solicitation packet to ask for immediate advertisements, rather
 than wait for the next periodic advertisement to arrive.
 
 Now, you may have a custom operating system or custom software
 that doesn't behave in the normal IP way, in which case, you
 need to tell us more about your situation.
 
  The question is, how can I advertise an HSRP IP address via
  OSPF routing
  protocol.
  I have been trying to achieve it by using the
  default-information originate
  always but the default gateway which the hosts gets is the
  real IP address
  of the interface.
 
 Perhaps the IOS developers never considered this a requirement
 and never made it possible to advertise the virtual HSRP
 address in an OSPF packet, since they solve two different
 problems. There may be a workaround, but I can't find one.
 
 Once again, I have to ask, what ARE these hosts? If they can
 talk OSPF, why don't you just let them use OSPF? OSPF can be
 designed to support the redundancy that you require. OSPF has
 support for quick convergence. HSRP solved a different problem,
 which was that IP, despite good routing protocols, didn't
 support quick convergence for the workstation-to-router
 first-hop problem.
 
 Priscilla
 
  
  Help will be most appreciated.
  
  Cheers,
  Gil
 

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