Limit on how many neighbors

[Magnus Löfqvist]

Hi,

I agree with you, it should not be the case here.
But,  we are running over mobile networks, and the openvpn adds some overhead.

Running some tcpdump shows that the packet lenght of the hello packet is just about 480, and that should be ok.

If we change to another openvpn instance/interface and change over to that it works directly.

I have also updated bird on our mainrouter to 1.6.3 (latest), but the issue still exist.

I have attached our config files (bird.conf (mainrouter), bird_client.conf (from one of the end router)).
My OSPF knowlege are limited, so I guess that I have made some errors :)

The main feature we need is to distribute some external routes (10.3.50.0/24, 10.3.60.0/24), and distribute back the endpoints IP networks (10.98.x.x/30)

/ Magnus

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Från: Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org>
Sänt: 13 okt. 2017 13:13
Till: Magnus Löfqvist
Kopia: bird-users at network.cz
Ämne: Re: Limit on how many neighbors

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:43:03AM +0000, Magnus Löfqvist wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are running Bird with OSPF between embedded routers (openwrt) (mobile routers).
> The routers are connected to our main server with openvpn, and we are using bird ontop on openvpn to deliver routes to the end routers.
>
> This have worked quite well, but today we notice some glitches.
> We had some routers that did not finish election (ie, stand in init instead of being full).
> When we count, there are exactly 100 devices that are in "full", and 3 in init.
>
> Are there any limit on how many neighbors/routers?

Hi

There is AFAIK no hard limit, but there is an issue that if you have too
many neighbors, you end with Router-LSA that does not fit into MTU and
will be sent using fragmented IP packets. Which usually works, but may be
problematic. But that is probably not relevant, as if there were such
problem, they would stuck in later stage of exchange and not in 'init'.

So i have no idea why they stuck in 'init'. Isn't there any
misconfiguration? Is there anything in logs? Did they corrected after
restart?

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