OSPF routes showing up as hidden

[brk_01]

I have an ospf area created between pairs of cisco 6807s, cisco 9500s and checkpoint 28000s (r81.10 JHF 66)

((cisco 6807 <-->  (eth3-04) CP28000 (eth3-01)  <--> cisco 9500))

PTP connections between the cisco devices and the Firewalls.

I have a vlan(s) hosted on the 6807s, advertised through OSPF, and other vlan(s) on the 9500s.  These vlans are configured the same on the cisco boxes (obviously different subnets).

On the firewall, I see the 6807 vlan(s) and they work, but the vlan(s) from the 9500s are showing up as Hidden / Inactive (although I do see them in the route table on the 6807s).

on the fw:

>show route ospf all

O x.x.0.0/28 via y.y.0.73, eth3-04, cost 1001, age 34609, instance default       (6807 hosted)
O x.x.0.16/28 via y.y.0.73, eth3-04, cost 1001, age 34609, instance default     (6807 hosted)
O H i x.x.0.32/28 is an unusable route           (9500 hosted)
O H i x.x.0.48/28 is an unusable route           (9500 hosted)
O H i x.x.64/28 is an unusable route              (9500 hosted)
O H i y.y.0.72/31 is an unusable route           (9500 hosted)
O H i y.y.0.74/31 is an unusable route           (9500 hosted)

>show ospf interfaces

Name IP Address Area ID State NC DR Interface BDR Interface Errors
eth3-04  y.y.0.72 0.0.0.60 P2P 1 N/A N/A 1
eth3-01  y.y.0.75 0.0.0.60 P2P 1 N/A N/A 0

on the 6807s

#show ip route

O x.x.0.32/28 [110/1101] via y.y.0.72, 09:45:30, TenGigabitEthernet7/15
O x.x.0.48/28 [110/1101] via y.y.0.72, 09:45:30, TenGigabitEthernet7/15
O x.x.0.64/28 [110/1101] via y.y.0.72, 09:45:30, TenGigabitEthernet7/15

on the 9500s

#show ip route

O x.x.0.0/28 [110/1101] via y.y.0.75, 09:45:05, TenGigabitEthernet2/1/2
O x.x.0.16/28 [110/1101] via y.y.0.75, 09:45:05, TenGigabitEthernet2/1/2

I have involved TAC, but no resolution as of yet.

Any ideas i can look at?

[the_rock]

We had exact same issue with the client last year. I will look at the notes and see how we fixed it. Also had TAC case for it, but it was 2 months and no luck, so we had to figure it out ourselves : - )

[the_rock]

Just had quick chat with a colleague and he said that one would need to import route map to add them to the global routing table, which is what we did for the customer.