OSPF Multiple Default Route Problem / Question

RouterOS Forwarding Protocols
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ROS 3.23

Have ospf running on say 10 routers, all connected with multiple routes to each, all in same area 0.0.0.1

Main ospf router with local interface to internet router has:
default static route
ospf setting of general/redistribute default route/always type 2 with default route metric set to default of 1

Everything like this is happy and all routers have default route dynamically imported from ospf with cost of 1 as expected

Now I am adding another internet connection (for backup only-never used if main connection available) to say ospf router 5

I added a default route to this router with a distance setting of 200 so the ospf received default route is active and preferred and this local static default route is blue and available but not active. No problem here this too is expected and preferred.

Now - on ospf router 5 these ospf settings are made: general/redistribute default route/always type 2 with default metric 500

At this point I would expect to see two default routes available each with different costs in routing table (ospf routes or ip routes - somewhere) but what happens is that this particular router now only has one default route which is the local static one being redistributed and the one normally received and used dynamically is not present any more.

Furthermore the second higher cost default route never shows in any other router as an inactive (blue) default route or at all for that matter… I was thinking that each roter would show two default routes with different costs and the higher cost default route being set to inactive (blue in winbox routes list).

Thoughts? Should this happen? Am I going about this wrong?

Some config info…
All routers have this ospf config except two with default routes (router id’s different of course):
router-id: 0.0.0.12
distribute-default: never
redistribute-connected: as-type-1
redistribute-static: no
redistribute-rip: no
redistribute-bgp: no
metric-default: 1
metric-connected: 20
metric-static: 20
metric-rip: 20
metric-bgp: 20
mpls-te-area: unspecified
mpls-te-router-id: unspecified


Main router with default route used always if available:
router-id: 0.0.0.10
distribute-default: always-as-type-2
redistribute-connected: as-type-1
redistribute-static: no
redistribute-rip: no
redistribute-bgp: no
metric-default: 1
metric-connected: 20
metric-static: 20
metric-rip: 20
metric-bgp: 20
mpls-te-area: unspecified
mpls-te-router-id: unspecified

Router with secondary backup only internet / default route:
router-id: 0.0.0.13
distribute-default: always-as-type-2
redistribute-connected: as-type-1
redistribute-static: as-type-1
redistribute-rip: no
redistribute-bgp: no
metric-default: 500
metric-connected: 20
metric-static: 20
metric-rip: 20
metric-bgp: 20
mpls-te-area: unspecified
mpls-te-router-id: unspecified


Thanks for your time…

2

You will not see two default routes in routing table. If primary default route fails and becomes inactive, then ospf should install another default route in routing table.

3

and if i want to see them for debug?

Thanks!

4

you can check
/routing ospf lsa
and
/routing ospf route

these two tables contains complete information

5

My problem isn’t the route list it’s the fact that the one with the failover internet connection has a higher ospf cost but since it’s local it uses that instead of the primary ospf route that all the other routers use.

6

set distribute-default=if-installed-as-type-1

and problem should be gone