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Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Multicast OSPF LSA (Type 6) on Cisco router

Cisco routers do not support LSA Type 6 Multicast OSPF (MOSPF), and they generate syslog messages if they receive such packets. If the router is receiving many MOSPF packets, you might want to configure the router to ignore the packets and thus prevent a large number of syslog messages.


Commands:
#Router ospf 0.0.0.1
#ignore lsa mospf


Does ospf having backup path?

 OSPF uses the SPF algorithm. The information contained in a router’s OSPF link state database is the “MAP” that is used to calculate the best path to a remote network. However, unlike EIGRP, OSPF does not keep backup paths to routes, rather, when a route to a network goes down, the SPF algorithm is run again to determine a backup or alternate path.
Keep in mind no backup link.. if there are any dual active paths to any destination with same metric then load balancing will work (default up to 4 Path).