Bird OSPF Problems

cedric Kienzler cedrickienzler1 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 16 12:33:31 CEST 2018


Thanks, I'll check it out.

Best regards,
Cedi

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 12:32 Zsolt Hegyi <hegyi.mokka at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Cedric,
>
> As far as I know, wireguard doesn't support multicasts yet, which OSPF
> uses for neighbor discovery. The reason why BGP works is because it uses
> unicast TCP packets as means of communication.
>
> To get around this, try telling BIRD that your wireguard interface is an
> NBMA network (or a point-to-point link).
>
> vista
>
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, 11:27 cedric Kienzler, <cedrickienzler1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey List,
>>
>> i'm currently facing issues with OSPF over the wireguard tunnel.
>>
>> I use both, IPv4 and IPv6 and everything works fine. I can ping through
>> the tunnel, traffic flows perfectly, but when i try to configure OSPF using
>> the Bird routing daemon, i didn't even see a HELLO message. Also when
>> trying to list the interface using 'show ospf interfaces' i didn't even see
>> the Interface.
>>
>> For IPv6 i use 2a03.... as prefix.
>> Should i configure multicast IPv6 (fe80::) on the interface too to get
>> OSPF working?
>>
>> Interesting fact: BGB using Bird works just fine.
>>
>> Anyone here that could help me?
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Cedi
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