Not sure how I missed the clear information in the man page... "If set to default, a default route pointing to this router will be announced over OSPF"
It seems I am just having an issue and it should work as I expected. I will do some more diagnosis in the morning... On Sun, 26 Apr 2020, 17:09 Richard Chivers, <r.chiv...@zengenti.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Hope someone can help, I am having a strange issue and can't seem to > isolate the problem. > > We have "redistribute default" set globally on our bgp/ibgp speakers > in the ospfd.conf. The bsd boxes are all 6.6. > > These routers are connected via ibgp to some other routers and have > external bgp sessions taking at present a couple of basic network > announcements from their egbp peers. e.g. 2.2.2.0/24 ( we have faked our > transit provider) > > Connected to these routers we have a pair of firewalls, which previously > received a default route from the bgp/ibgp speakers. > > I am trying to understand exactly what the redistribute default in the > ospfd.conf does. I assume it is saying if i have a static default route or > another default route from an upstream then tell other routers about it? Or > is it saying tell others to use me as a default route. I can't seem to find > anything specific in the docs to clarify this, and would like to understand > it clearly if pos. > > In our case our previous configuration on 5.8 and this configuration has a > static route on the bgp speakers of 0.0.0.0/24 -> 127.0.0.1. > > If I do a ospfctl sh rib or ospfctl sh data on the firewalls i just don't > see any default route being provided by the bgp speakers. > > Hope this makes sense. I am sure I am missing something obvious... > > Effectively I want the bgp speakers to announce themselves as the default > route for their neighbor firewalls over ospf. > > Thanks >
