topic Re: OSPF stops annoucing connected routes in Firewall and Security Management

OSPF stops annoucing connected routes

Rosenkrantz — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 08:06:02 GMT

I have seen a weird issue on appliances running R81 with OSPF.

sometimes the gateways stop announcing connected interfaces into OSPF. When we then paste OSPF config into GAIA, OSPF starts to announce again.

The gateway setup is VSX version R81. OSPF seem to be running, OSPF neighbors are seen on all devices but no routes recieved on other layers in the setup from the appliances that has the problem.

In environments dependent on dynamic routing this is a big issue. the problem started after upgrade to R81.

Has anyone experienced this?

Re: OSPF stops annoucing connected routes

Chris_Atkinson — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 14:02:30 GMT

Which JHF version is installed and does it happen only after restarting the OSPF instance?

Re: OSPF stops annoucing connected routes

Rosenkrantz — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 08:08:13 GMT

Thank you for replying

JHF is 44. What triggers it is not really clear, but a reboot does not fix it. I suspect a cpstop cpstart will make it happen but we have no plans testing it right now.

pasting in the OSPF config in Clish triggers the routes to come back

">show route" on the affected node will show no OSPF routes. pasting below information into Clish makes all routes come back.

set ospf instance default graceful-restart-helper on
set ospf instance default area backbone on
set router-id 0.0.3.1
set ospf instance default interface bond4.3231 area backbone on
set ospf instance default interface bond4.3231 cost 10
set ospf instance default interface bond4.3231 priority 10
set ospf instance default interface bond4.3231 authtype md5 key 1 secret XXXXXXXX
set ospf instance default interface bond5.3301 area backbone on
set ospf instance default interface bond5.3301 cost 6
set ospf instance default interface bond5.3301 priority 0
set ospf instance default interface bond5.3301 authtype md5 key 1 secret XXXXXXX
set ospf instance default import-routemap zone01-import preference 1 on
set ospf instance default export-routemap zone01-export preference 1 on

showing OSPF neighbors will show all correct information all the time.

So to sum up it seems OSPF is runnig but but advertising is dead

Re: OSPF stops annoucing connected routes

Chris_Atkinson — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:36:48 GMT

There are some ROUTED fixes in newer JHF takes but nothing described in a manner that matches 100%.

Are you already engaged with TAC on this or have plans to upgrade from T44?

Re: OSPF stops annoucing connected routes

ianpag — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:38:18 GMT

Hi @Rosenkrantz , nudging this thread..Hope you can share if this was resolved and how? 🙂