Every now and again you see a snippet of complex CLI syntax that gives you pause for thought. Last week I saw the command below in a change procedure. The command was being used to verify baseline BGP neighbor state and re-verify after a policy change. 1 2 3 show ip bgp peer-template eBGP_Peers | egrep default | sed ‘s/default://’ \ | tr -s ‘ |\n’ | tr -s ‘ ‘ ‘\n’ | sed ‘s/^/show ip bgp nei /’ \…
MTU mismatches are the primary reason an OSPF adjacency becomes stuck in the EXSTART state. After hellos are exchanged and the routers become neighbors, each OSPF speaker advertises the IP MTU of it’s local interface in a Data Base Description (DBD) LSA. If there is a mismatch you’ll probably just adjust the configuration to be identical on both ends of the link and be done. However, when you try to peer two OSPF routers with different network operating systems, things…