Folks,

I'm experimenting with using Zebra running on a Debian box to do OSPF with the Ciscos on our network. The zebra box has 2 interfaces, each in a different area. This is the first time we have tried to impliment multiple areas on our network. Right now, area 51 consists only of the zebra box and a Cisco 2500, and is just for testing.

The zebra box is forming a full adjacency with the Cisco in area 51 with no problems. It will not, however, become fully adjacent with the DR and BDR in area 0. This seems to be preventing the distrobution of routes to the zebra box.

The adjacency issue is solved. We were hoping to use the Debian Zebra package because we like their package management so much, but they do tend to be behind the development curve. When we built Zebra from the current source the adjacency issue just went away. Next question. Now that the adjacency issue is solved, the router that is in both area 51 and area 0 is learning routes from area 0, and the other router in area 51 is then learning those routes in turn. If I add a route on the area 51 only router, however, that route shows up on the router in both area 51 and area 0, but does not show up on the other routers in area 0. I am using all the redistrute commands I can find. I'm baffled at this point. Any insight would be appreciated.

Distrobution of routes in area 51 works fine.

Here is my config, minus auth info.

! Zebra configuration saved from vty ! 2002/02/02 16:35:11 ! hostname ospfd log file /var/log/zebra/ospfd.log service password-encryption ! ! interface lo ! interface eth1 ip ospf authentication-key <password> ! interface eth0 ip ospf message-digest-key <keyid> md5 <password> ip ospf priority 5 ip ospf hello-interval 10 ip ospf dead-interval 40

! router ospf ospf router-id 216.184.8.55 ospf abr-type cisco ospf rfc1583compatibility network 198.59.115.0/24 area 0 network 216.184.8.0/24 area 51 area 0 authentication message-digest area 51 authentication redistribute static

Josh jgentry@swcp.com