To be honest - I don't know. The docs say it's set in 5, too - but I
have not seen it. It's just one of those things I remembered as "OK,
so that's how it works because someone decided".

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On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 21:24, venkat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yet another question. I am aware the down bit is set when the summary routes
> (type-3 lsa) are redistributed from PE to CE so that other PE routers will
> ignore the LSA. But it is not set in Type-5 LSA (not tested with type-7)..
> Though, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4576 says
> "When the PE receives, from a CE router, a type 3, 5, or 7 LSA with the DN
> bit set, the information from that LSA MUST NOT be used during
>
> the OSPF route calculation.  As a result, the LSA is not translated
> into a BGP route.  The DN bit MUST be ignored in all other LSA types"
>
> Is there any reason why we are not using/set "DN" bit for type-5/7 as well
> and using "domain tag" instead?
> R6#show ip ospf database summary 100.100.100.100
>             OSPF Router with ID (6.6.6.6) (Process ID 1)
>                 Summary Net Link States (Area 0)
>   Routing Bit Set on this LSA
>   LS age: 39
>   Options: (No TOS-capability, DC, Downward)
>   LS Type: Summary Links(Network)
>   Link State ID: 100.100.100.100 (summary Network Number)
>   Advertising Router: 13.1.2.1
>   LS Seq Number: 80000001
>   Checksum: 0x7A9D
>   Length: 28
>   Network Mask: /32
>         TOS: 0  Metric: 2
>
> R6#show ip ospf database external 22.22.22.22
>             OSPF Router with ID (6.6.6.6) (Process ID 1)
>                 Type-5 AS External Link States
>   Routing Bit Set on this LSA
>   LS age: 44
>   Options: (No TOS-capability, DC)
>   LS Type: AS External Link
>   Link State ID: 22.22.22.22 (External Network Number )
>   Advertising Router: 13.1.2.1
>   LS Seq Number: 80000002
>   Checksum: 0xAAB9
>   Length: 36
>   Network Mask: /32
>         Metric Type: 2 (Larger than any link state path)
>         TOS: 0
>         Metric: 20
>         Forward Address: 0.0.0.0
>         External Route Tag: 3489660929
> R6#
> Thanks,
> Venkat
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:46 AM, venkat <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> ha. My Bad... Thanks Marko.. Forgot that only inter and intra area ospf
>> routes are redistributed by default.. :)
>> Now everything looks good.
>> Regards,
>> venkat
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Marko Milivojevic <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Try this in BGP config for VRF one:
>>>
>>> redist ospf 2 vrf one match internal external
>>>
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>>>
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>>> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 21:07, venkat <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> > I am stuck with a problem. In the below topology;
>>> > CE1------PE1----- MPLS---- PE2----CE2
>>> > CE1 is sending OSPF type-5 external LSA (generated by a redistributing
>>> > specific loopback IP) and i could see this lsa in PE1's ospf database.
>>> > But,
>>> > not in BGP vpnv4 table. Is this expected behavior? I though as the
>>> > tag=0,by
>>> > default, E2 routes are not redistributed into BGP vpnv4. tried with
>>> > changing
>>> > tag value to 100 and still no success.
>>> > Below is the configuration;
>>> > <snip from R0-CE1>
>>> >                 Type-5 AS External Link States
>>> > Link ID         ADV Router      Age         Seq#       Checksum Tag
>>> > 22.22.22.22     100.100.100.100 463         0x80000001 0x003B17 100
>>> > <From R1 - PE1>
>>> > OSPF 1 VRF
>>> >                 Type-5 AS External Link States
>>> > Link ID         ADV Router      Age         Seq#       Checksum Tag
>>> > 22.22.22.22     100.100.100.100 715         0x80000001 0x003B17 100
>>> > R2#
>>> > !
>>> >  address-family ipv4 vrf one
>>> >   redistribute ospf 2 vrf one
>>> >   no synchronization
>>> >  exit-address-family
>>> > R2#
>>> > R2#show ip bgp  vpnv4 vrf one  <<< not seeing type-5 LSA
>>> > BGP table version is 50, local router ID is 2.2.2.2
>>> > Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, i -
>>> > internal,
>>> >               r RIB-failure, S Stale
>>> > Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete
>>> >    Network          Next Hop            Metric LocPrf Weight Path
>>> > Route Distinguisher: 1:1 (default for vrf one)
>>> > *> 11.1.1.0/24      0.0.0.0                  0         32768 ?
>>> > *> 12.1.1.0/24      0.0.0.0                  0         32768 ?
>>> > *>i13.1.1.0/24      5.5.5.5                  0    100      0 ?
>>> > *>i13.1.2.0/24      5.5.5.5                  0    100      0 ?
>>> > *> 100.100.100.100/32
>>> >                     12.1.1.2                 2         32768 ?
>>> > *>i192.168.2.0      5.5.5.5                  2    100      0 ?
>>> > R2#
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Venkat
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