Re: (PM) OSPF summaries, E2 vs. E1 type ASE OSPF routes

Miquel van Smoorenburg (list-portmaster-users@news.cistron.nl)
3 May 1999 12:52:35 +0200

In article <cistron.19990502193408.53136@cuci.nl>,
Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@cuci.nl> wrote:
>So, the question is: how can I tell the PM3 to use E1 type routes or
>(probably even better) internal-OSPF-routes instead of the default
>E2 type routes it exports?

I posted the a similar message to this list 6 weeks ago. No response, so
I contacted our supplier (dataman) and asked them to send this to
Livingston:

There is a bug or misfeature in ComOS wrt OSPF route advertizements-
static IP numbers (assigned by RADIUS) outside of the "pool" are announced
by ComOS as "External type 2". This happens even if the area defined on the
portmaster includes the range in which this IP number falls.

This IMO is a bug - an interface route should always be advertized as
"intra-area". Also it would be nice if this would happen for static routes
assigned by radius as well (if they fall into the defined range of the area).

I got _one_ reply from Lucent, after a month:

According to my information about OSPF, when you assign
pools/routes to PM products and defind the ospf area's
you also need to implement the static ip's in these area's
else the PM will always advertise those routes as external
type 2.

This can be interpreted in 2 ways:

- They want me to use static IP numbers in the range of the pool.
Ofcourse that is nonsense.
- Define the OSPF area to include the static IP range. That is
exactly what I did, yet it doesn't work, and hence my problem.

Every message/request/question I sent to Lucent in the past year has
been answered with non-answers followed by a long silence.

I have a BACP problem and I pointed out the exact paragraph and line
of the BACP RFC2125 to Lucent engineers to show what the PM3 does wrong
and after mailing back and forth for _months_ I get an answer that said
in short "exactly, so we hope your problem is solved now?". Sigh,
that's a polite way to say "we are getting tired of you, get lost".

Mike.

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