OSPF over OpenVPN

21 Mar 2018

      Hello all,

I am trying to establish OSPF over OpenVPN without any luck. The client side always turns up with no neighbours. I’ve tried pointtopoint and exclusively listing my neighbours all with no luck. 

I originally was using the tun interface and switched to tap hoping that would help, but still nothing.

Below are my configurations, does anyone see anything obvious that I am missing?

Thanks so much for your time and thoughts!

===
show ospf 
ospf1:
RFC1583 compatibility: disabled
Stub router: No
RT scheduler tick: 1
Number of areas: 1
Number of LSAs in DB:	1
	Area: 0.0.0.0 (0) [BACKBONE]
		Stub:	No
		NSSA:	No
		Transit:	No
		Number of interfaces:	0
		Number of neighbors:	0
		Number of adjacent neighbors:	0

Server ===

protocol ospf {
        import all;
        export filter {
                ospf_metric1 = 1000;
                if source = RTS_STATIC then accept; else reject;
        };
        area 0 {
                networks {
			10.40.32.0/24;
                    10.10.10.32/27;
                };

                interface "bond1" {
                        type broadcast;
                        cost 5;
                        hello 5;
                        wait 10;
                        dead 25;
                        authentication cryptographic; password “boogers";
                };

                interface "tap*" {
                        type broadcast;
                        cost 5;
                        hello 5;
                        wait 10;
                        dead 25;
                        authentication cryptographic; password “boogers";
                };

                interface "*" {
                        cost 1000;
                        stub;
                #type pointopoint;
                };

        };

Client  ===
protocol ospf {
        import all;
        export filter {
                ospf_metric1 = 1000;
                if source = RTS_STATIC then accept; else reject;
        };
        area 0 {
                networks {
                10.40.32.0/24;
                    10.10.10.32/27;
                };

                interface "bond1" {
                        type broadcast;
                        cost 5;
                        hello 5;
                        wait 10;
                        dead 25;
                        authentication cryptographic; password “boogers";
                };
                interface "tap*" {
                        type broadcast;
                        cost 5;
                        hello 5;
                        wait 10;
                        dead 25;
                        authentication cryptographic; password "boogers";
                };

                interface "*" {
                        cost 1000;
                        stub;
                #type pointopoint;
                };
        };

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