Hello, Only relying on OSPF hellos effectively makes it mimic BGP with its keepalives. I will ponder the value of transporting the underlay in OSPF, effectively transporting loopback peering addresses for BGP in OSPF. I am not sure that it will make my life easier but will consider it.
Thanks for the quick replies everyone. You confirmed that I am not entirely a moron. Still, having the ability to set rtlabels in ospfd would be nice. On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 5:59 PM Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > On 2018-10-15, open...@kene.nu <open...@kene.nu> wrote: > > in theory. But when WAN links are composed of IPSEC and GRE (which > > does not have link state) OSPF falls to pieces as the core idea of is > > link-state. > > OSPF primarily uses hellos. Link-state is also used to speed up failover > up but is not required. > > There was a bug in ospfd with DR selection that results in problems > (specifically multiple routers thinking they were all DR) after a > netsplit if there was no link-state change. This was already fixed > though so if you are running 6.3+ and still seeing problems, please > send a bug report with some information. > >
