Hi Howard,
You really need to take this up with CCA.
Unless you are setting up to be a multi homed ISP, you don't need to run any
type of Dynamic routing protocols at all on your Internet link. You should
ignore any route advertisement packets from CCA and you shouldn't send them
any (they would just be dropped). I don't know why you are getting them.
> I am attempting to establish a ppp connection using Linux with
> connect.com.au
>
> I notice that their router to which I am connecting is sending OSPF-hello
> (protocol 89) packets looking for its neighbours. I also notice that
> these are multicast packets addressed to 224.0.0.5.
Strange???
> 1. Should I be responding to these packets?
No, there is no point.
CCA already *know* about the addresses they have given you. The only
information you could provide by responding to these route solicitation
packets is the address range assigned to you by BPD. This information would
be silently discarded by CCA. Your BPD address range was assigned to you by
BPD and is strictly non-portable, that is, there can only be one route to
your BPD range, and that is via BPD.
> 2. Am I capable of responding to these packets?
You are capable of responding to OSPF, you would need to install and config
one of:
gated - big routing protocol package, hard to config
zebra - even bigger, also supports OSPF (And BGP!!!)
> 3. How do I respond to these packets?
See above ....
> 4. Should I be getting connect.com.au to perform their route advertisment
> some other way?
CCA shouldn't be advertising routes out to you.
They will have simply placed a static route in the access server you dial
into which directs traffic up your PPP link. No dynamic routing needed.
> Because I am not responding to these packets, when I do a traceroute from
> within the BPD network to my IP block that is assigned to be behind this
> ppp connection, the traceroute stops at connect.lnk.telstra.net. Am I
> correct in assuming that this is because my assigned IP block is not being
> advertised in the connect.com.au network because of the above?
No, it sounds like CCA haven't provisioned your service correctly.
Cheers,
Barrie
Barrie Hall
Senior Consulting Engineer
Senteq Information Systems
Internet Services Group
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