Hello, I have got a patch, seems, that it works --- packet.c.orig Sun Sep 3 08:53:15 2000 +++ packet.c Wed Mar 7 16:53:36 2001 @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ return(1); } - if(ps->areaid!=ifa->an) + if(ntohl(ps->areaid)!=ifa->an) { log("%s: Bad OSPF packet received: other area %ld", p->name, ps->areaid); log("%s: Discarding",p->name); -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Rohleder davro@ics.muni.cz Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic -------------------------------------------------------------------------