[ILUG] Quagga temporarily drops routes after ifup eth0:1

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Kenn Humborg wrote:

> This showed the cause, I think.  When I brought up eth0:1, the 
> router-id changed to the new IP address, even though it had 
> previously used the IP address of eth1 as the router ID.
>
> Specifying a router-id in ospfd.conf seems to have sorted it
> out.
>
> Is it best practice to hard-code a router-id in ospfd.conf?

It's goodish practice to avoid surprises, yes.

However, the problem you describe has been fixed by having the 
'zebra' daemon choose a stable router-ID and supply it to the 
daemons. :)

regards,
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