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(ASCEND) Re: OSPF usability?

>From: Bill Wilson <fluffy@KeyserSoze.snurgle.org>
>
>I have heard many stories about the usability or not of OSPF on Ascend Max
>systems.  I have a 2024 (now actually connecting via leased T1 with PPP -
>the admin at the other end had given me the wrong IP addresses, which
>caused that problem).  I am connected to a Cisco 2501 on the other end and
>am supposed to be part of a large OSPF network.  None of the systems
>connected via the PRI or the Ethernet really have any use for OSPF.  The
>only link I need to deal with OSPF at all is the leased T-1 to the Cisco.
>My question is, is this setup sufficiently simple for my Max to not choke
>on it?  And does it matter how complicated the area on the other side of
>the Cisco is?  Because it's pretty complicated.  :)  The ethernet and
>dialin lines can be external or part of this area or pretty much anything
>they want to be.  Whatever makes things easiest.  :)  Also, why can't I be
>in a stub area?  It seems that it would make things easier, not harder, on
>the Max.

I'll answer what I can, which is that I've run OSPF between a 4000 and a
TNT for most of 1997, and OSPF has certainly gotten better (more stable). I
use OSPF to advertise when a subnet-routed connection comes up, so I don't
have to worry about which POP people use. In my simple situation, it works
great, although a couple of bugs remain.

Just be sure you fclear, fsave, nvramclear when you load the OSPF version
of the code. It seems to make for less fatal errors down the line.

>Can you tell I never did a thing with OSPF before?  I knew you could.

I'm not that far ahead of you, but I do have it working and it was just
about the easiest thing I've set up with these damn things. ;-)

Good luck.

Peter Lalor
Infoasis
plalor@infoasis.com
http://www.infoasis.com/
415-459-7991 x102
415-459-7992 fax


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