Non OSPF router not reachable from backbone area!!!

Hi everyone,

I have 4 MikroTik 333 with RouterOS 3.7 running OSPF configured as it follows:


R1 (10.10.1.1) -----ethernet----- (10.10.1.2) R2 (10.10.2.1) -----ethernet----- (10.10.2.2) R3 (10.10.3.1)-----ethernet----- (10.10.3.2) R4

Each router Rx has its own Router-id: x.x.x.x
All three routers R2, R3, R4 have their active interfaces associated to backbone area, but R1 has not becasuse i don't want it to participate in OSPF routing.
The configuration in /routing/ospf of each of them is the same, for example in R4:

router-id: 4.4.4.4 distribute-default: never redistribute-connected: as-type-1 redistribute-static: no redistribute-rip: no redistribute-bgp: no metric-default: 1 metric-connected: 0 metric-static: 0 metric-rip: 0 metric-bgp: 0 mpls-te-area: unspecified mpls-te-router-id: unspecified

The problem is that for example, viewing the routing table in /ip/route of R4 appears this:

DST-ADDRESS PREF-SRC GATEWAY-STATE GATEWAY DISTANCE INTERFACE

0 ADo 10.10.1.0/24 reachable 10.10.3.1 110 ether2
1 ADo 10.10.2.0/24 reachable 10.10.3.1 110 ether2
2 ADC 10.10.3.0/24 10.10.3.2 0 ether2

So when i make a ping from R4 to R2 (10.10.1.2) it responds with no problem at all, but when i try to reach R1 (10.10.1.1) it is not possible and i don't understand why because if i can reach R2 (10.10.1.2) this one would have to be able to reach R1 (10.10.1.1) because they both own to the same net 10.10.1.0/24.... anyone who can help me? Thanks a lot,

Uri

Make sure you have route on R1 to reach R4

Thanks rmz, it was so simple as creating a default route on R1 :smiley: