<div dir="ltr">Hello all,<div><br></div><div>I'm running BIRD 1.3.4 with JUNOS and I ran into the issue of "netmask 0.0.0.0" was seen by JUNOS as it's not being sent by BIRD on a OSPF point-to-point link per RFC spec but JUNOS perform strict check on it. </div>
<div><br></div><div>There seemed to be quite a bit of discussions about this online [1][2] and I'm wondering if anyone got a better alternatives then switching to link broadcast mode?</div><div><br></div><div style>I also looked at BIRD code, it seemed like someone have applied a patch for a "ptp netmask" option on in April 17 to work around this issue but upgrading BIRD is not an option at this point.</div>
<div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&enablesaml=yes&id=KB23533&max-yv=1&cat=M_SERIES&actp=LIST&smlogin=true">https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&enablesaml=yes&id=KB23533&max-yv=1&cat=M_SERIES&actp=LIST&smlogin=true</a></div>
<div>[2] <a href="http://forums.juniper.net/t5/Junos-and-Junosphere/ospf-point-to-point-interface-type-on-ethernet/td-p/39375">http://forums.juniper.net/t5/Junos-and-Junosphere/ospf-point-to-point-interface-type-on-ethernet/td-p/39375</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>thanks,<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-bn</div><div>0216331C</div>
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