[Xorp-users] FW: cannot ping one of the interfaces from an OSPF router after installing XORP

Ben Greear greearb at candelatech.com
Tue Aug 5 15:18:34 PDT 2014


On 08/05/2014 03:05 PM, Liu, Xuan (UMKC-Student) wrote:
> Okay, I just figured it out. I needs to turn off the reverse path filtering on my VM, by default it's 1. 
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> sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter=0
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> sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter=0
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> I also did similar thing to all other interfaces (eth1, eth2, ...)
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> Here is a bug report about this issue for ubuntu server 10.04 that has Quagga installed. 
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quagga/+bug/625812
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> Thank you for all the helps

Is this something that Xorp could detect on startup and warn the user about, perhaps?

If so, a patch (against latest code in git) would be welcome.

Thanks,
Ben

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