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Russell_77729
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Feb 10, 2015

Advertised route via OSPFv2

We use the advanced routing module (a module I'm not familiar with) in the F5 to advertise routes via OSPFv2 to to a network that uses the F5 as the default gateway. There are two Forwarding (IP) vi...
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NikhilB
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Feb 10, 2015

Under Route Advertisement, can you uncheck this feature to verify the outcome? If your active box goes down you would expect the standby unit to advertise the route to the up stream routers.

 

Judging from what your saying, you are seeing routes advertised by the standby unit with a better metric?

 

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    Russell_77729
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    Feb 10, 2015
    I see the 192.168.86.0 route advertised from both, but I see the 0.0.0.0 route advertised only from the standby. Neither unit should be advertising 0.0.0.0 but both should be advertising 192.168.86.0.
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    NikhilB
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    Feb 10, 2015
    OK. So am assuming you have route advertisement turned off for 0.0.0.0 route on both devices?
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    Russell_77729
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    Feb 10, 2015
    Correct. ltm virtual-address 0.0.0.0 { address any app-service none arp disabled auto-delete true connection-limit 0 description none enabled yes floating enabled icmp-echo disabled inherited-traffic-group false mask any metadata none partition Common route-advertisement disabled server-scope any traffic-group traffic-group-1 unit 1 }