Hi, On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 06:46:20PM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > I have been working out how to have my server setup with OSPF routing.
I have no operational experience of OSPF nor FRR. I do what you're doing but with BIRD, BGP and ECMP. I think you'll probably need to ask questions on some FRR support forum as this is likely beyond most of us on debian-user. Some comments though: > Can anyone think of anything I might have missed? > > ### Create and configure the dummy interface > > sudo touch /etc/network/interfaces.d/ospf.cfg > sudo vim /etc/network/interfaces.d/ospf.cfg In an earlier post you said you use NetworkManager but you continue to use ifupdown config files. Did you in fact mean to say that you are using ifupdown? That won't be an issue - I use ifupdown myself in the place I do BGP/ECMP. But you'll want to be clear when asking for help. > ### Add Default Gateway routes > route add -net default gw 10.1.1.1 metric 1024 dev eth0 > route add -net default gw 10.1.1.5 metric 1024 dev eth1 > > # NOTE: I am not sure if the above commands will be persistent. They won't. Why aren't they in the same ifupdown interfaces file as the place you defined the interface, so they get added/removed when the interface is brought up/down? > ### sysctl.d config file > sudo touch /etc/sysctl.d/ipforward > sudo vim /etc/sysctl.d/ipforward > net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 Files in /etc/sysctl.d need to have an extension of .conf as per /etc/sysctl.d/README.sysctl and "man sysctl.d". Your file above is not going to be acted upon. If things don't work out with FRR I'd say try BIRD. Its support mailing list is reasonably active. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
