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OSPF basic level question IPV4

  • 1.  OSPF basic level question IPV4

    Posted Sat May 11, 2024 12:50 PM

    I've been trying to get OSPF working between z/OS and Linux servers.  Ive had OPSF6 working...  I want to get IPV4 working.

    I'm using frr program on 3 Linux machines one of which talks to z/OS.

    I define an additional IPV4 address on one Linux machine (A)

    On another machine(B) will OSPF define a route for me to get to A?, or do I need to manually configure a route (- if so what's the point of OSPF?)
    I tried this scenario and when I pinged the additional address on A it went to the default route - and got lost.

    On machine B the show ip route gave 

    O   10.6.0.3/32 [110/2000] via 10.1.0.3, enp8s0 inactive, weight 1, 01:49:47

    but 

    ip route show table all did not include it.

    Or to put it another way.

    If I have an existing OSPF network between Linux and z/OS, and want to  define a new IPV4 interface on z/OS, and add it to OSPF on z/OS

    what do I need to configure so I can ping this new address from a Linux machine?

    Al the documentation jumps into LSAs and complex examples

    Colin



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    Colin Paice
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