OSPF is so buggy ?

RouterOS General
1

Hi!

Does anyone use OSPF in little much more complex way than in mirkotik manual (3 routers)?

I have 10+ mikrotiks routers in networks working with OSPF in one are, and what I can tell is that mikrotik is someting that you realy don’t want in your network. Mikrotiks OSPF to work fine, need to reboot everyting , if any network topology is changed (mostly, but sometime it work).

I have send so many rif files to suppor, and only thing I get from them is:
“Do you have these problems in 2.9.4 ?”
2.9.4, hahah, 2.9.5,2.9.6 no diference…

So, do you people have problems with OSPF ? Or is it just my imagination ?

Best regards

RIP

2

I have the same. In version 2.9.7. Sometimes in OSPF neighbors table stay neighbor router i init state and ospf connection not working.

3

same to me,
but try routing-test - still not satifies but works much better.
one of the main important features for ospf in routeros would be a switch to restart the ospf routing engine wihtout rebooting the whole box…

Wolfgang

4

I can often get OSPF to restart cleanly by disabling all OSPF Networks, then re-enabling them. This seems to work ~90% of the time.

:local NETS [/rou ospf net find disabled=no]
:foreach NET in NETS do={/rou osp net disable $NET}
:delay 5
:foreach NET in NETS do={/rou osp net enable $NET}