OSPF v2 ROS7.12.1, no hello packets

Greetings everyone!

I want to configure OSPF on mikrotik, and I’m facing a problem, that I can not overcome.

My mikrotik with ros7.12 does not send any ospf hello, no matter what config is. I did not find official mikrotik OSPF document helping, cause more than half of it just explaning how protocols works. There is L3 bidirectionally connectivity between nodes over p2p /31 link, even loopback address of other node is reachable.

Other node sends hello, and I can see those in torch. Worth mentioning, Nokia and Cisco establish neigboring with no problem and everythig works.

So i think problem is in mikrotik here, but at this moment, I have no clue where to look.

Here is my OSPF config:

/routing ospf instance
add disabled=no name=ospf-instance-1 redistribute=connected router-id=192.0.0.2
/routing ospf area
add disabled=no instance=ospf-instance-1 name=ospf-area-1
/routing ospf interface-template
add area=ospf-area-1 disabled=no interfaces=ether4 networks=10.0.0.0/31 type=ptp

Current version is 7.21.3

Consider upgrading first.

The OSPF documentation in the https://mikrotikdocs.fyi/ website is a good supplement to what is in the official docs. It also has some troubleshooting hints.

https://mikrotikdocs.fyi/routing/ospfv2-single-area-configuration/

Also, verify your mtu sizes on both ends match (or that you tell the cisco to ingore mtu for ospf).

Well, thanks a lot for that website, havent seen before. And it actually helped (article), routers became neighbors. But about MTU, as I know missmatching it only leads to losing adjacency, but hello packets will be sent anyway.

Guess it should help with /31 quriks and introduces IS-IS support. I only needed OSPF to redistribute some routes mikrotik has into IS-IS network, so upgrade woild solve primarily problem (lack of IS-IS support). But anyway, I’m not used to mikrotik paradigm about software, and not used to software update as problem solving. So, it was not considered in a first way. Thanks anyway.

Hi,

I'm interested by this solution (FYI site) but get 404.

Beginner for ospf, can you provide your config as example?

Thank you