On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 10:23:38PM +0200, Bret S. Lambert wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 01:08:02PM -0700, Andrew Klettke wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > A fresh install of OpenBSD 4.7 includes the default ospfd.conf (here
> > are just the first 11 lines):
> > 
> > # $OpenBSD: ospfd.conf,v 1.4 2007/06/19 16:49:56 reyk Exp $
> > 
> > # macros
> > password="secret"
> > 
> > # global configuration
> > # router-id 10.0.0.1
> > # fib-update no
> > # stub router no
> > # spf-delay 1
> > # spf-holdtime 5
> > 
> > If you uncomment out the "fib-update no" line, and have Ospfd
> > perform a syntax check of the file...
> > 
> > $ sudo ospfd -nf /etc/ospfd.conf
> > WARNING: IP forwarding NOT enabled, running as stub router
> > /etc/ospfd.conf:8: syntax error
> 
> I'd bet dollars to donuts that you've not set net.inet.ip.forwarding to 1,
> as you should've. If I'm right, please mail me my dollar to The OpenBSD
> Foundation. If I'm wrong, please feel free to purchase a donut.
> 

Sorry Bret, IP forwarding is not strictly needed to be turned on. I run
ospfd on a few boxes that have net.inet.ip.forwarding=0. It is not as bad
as a few releases ago when we did not have stub router support.

-- 
:wq Claudio

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