IP Routing

Introduction

This document shows how Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) injects a default route into a normal area. Default routes injected into a normal area can be originated by any OSPF router. The OSPF router does not, by default, generate a default route into the OSPF domain. In order for OSPF to generate a default route, you must use the default-information originate command.

There are two ways to advertise a default route into a normal area. The first is to advertise 0.0.0.0 into the OSPF domain, provided the advertising router already has a default route. The second is to advertise 0.0.0.0 regardless of whether the advertising router already has a default route. The second method can be accomplished by adding the keyword always to the default-information originate command.

Prerequisites

Requirements

There are no specific requirements for this document.

Components Used

This document is not restricted to specific software and hardware versions.

Conventions

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Configure

In this section, you are presented with the information to configure the features described in this document.

Note: To find additional information on the commands used in this document, use the Command Lookup Tool (registered customers only) .

Network Diagram

This document uses the network setup shown in this diagram.

Configurations

This document uses the configurations shown here.

• Router 1.1.1.1

• Router 2.2.2.2

Current configuration:

hostname r1.1.1.1

interface Loopback0
 ip address 1.1.1.1 255.0.0.0

interface Serial2/1/0
 ip address 5.0.0.1 255.0.0.0
 
router ospf 2
 network 5.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 area 1

end

Current configuration:

hostname r2.2.2.2

interface Loopback0
 ip address 2.2.2.2 255.0.0.0
 
interface Serial0/1/0
 ip address 5.0.0.2 255.0.0.0

interface ATM1/0.20
 ip address 6.0.0.2 255.0.0.0
 
router ospf 2
 network 5.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 area 1
 network 6.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 area 0
 default-information originate
 
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 6.0.0.3

end

Verify

This section provides information you can use to confirm your configuration is working properly.

Certain show commands are supported by the Output Interpreter Tool (registered customers only) , which allows you to view an analysis of show command output.

• show ip ospf database —Displays a list of the Link State Advertisements (LSAs) and types them into a link state database. This list shows only the information in the LSA header.

• show ip ospf database external —Displays information only about the external LSAs.

• show ip route —Displays the current status of the routing table.

Examine the OSPF Database

This output displays how the OSPF database looks given this network environment, using the show ip ospf database command.

r2.2.2.2#show ip ospf database 

       OSPF Router with ID (2.2.2.2) (Process ID 2) 

                Router Link States (Area 0) 

Link ID   ADV Router   Age     Seq#          Checksum   Link count 
2.2.2.2    2.2.2.2     600     0x80000001    0x9583          1 

                Summary Net Link States (Area 0) 

Link ID    ADV Router   Age     Seq#          Checksum 
5.0.0.0     2.2.2.2     600     0x80000001    0x8E61 

                Router Link States (Area 1) 

Link ID   ADV Router   Age     Seq#           Checksum   Link count 
1.1.1.1    1.1.1.1     864     0x8000005E     0xD350         2 
2.2.2.2    2.2.2.2     584     0x8000001E     0xF667         2 

                Summary Net Link States (Area 1) 

Link ID   ADV Router   Age     Seq#          Checksum 
6.0.0.0    2.2.2.2     585     0x80000004    0xA87C 

                Type-5 AS External Link States 

Link ID   ADV Router   Age     Seq#          Checksum    Tag 
0.0.0.0    2.2.2.2     601     0x80000001    0xD0D8       0 

Because it has a default route, Router 2.2.2.2 originates a type 5 LSA with a link ID of 0.0.0.0. This is the result of the default-information originate command in its OSPF configuration.

r2.2.2.2#show ip ospf database external 0.0.0.0 

       OSPF Router with ID (2.2.2.2) (Process ID 2) 

                Type-5 AS External Link States  

  LS age: 650 
  Options: (No TOS-capability, DC) 
  LS Type: AS External Link 
  Link State ID: 0.0.0.0 (External Network Number ) 
  Advertising Router: 2.2.2.2 
  LS Seq Number: 80000001 
  Checksum: 0xD0D8 
  Length: 36 
  Network Mask: /0 
        Metric Type: 2 (Larger than any link state path) 
        TOS: 0 
        Metric: 1 
        Forward Address: 0.0.0.0 
        External Route Tag: 0 


r2.2.2.2#show ip route 0.0.0.0 
S* 0.0.0.0/0 [1/0] via 6.0.0.3, 00:28:00, ATM1/0.20  


r1.1.1.1#show ip route ospf 
O IA 6.0.0.0/8 [110/65] via 5.0.0.2, 00:00:18, Serial2/1/0 
O*E2 0.0.0.0/0 [110/1] via 5.0.0.2, 00:00:18, Serial2/1/0 

You can also add the always keyword to the default-information originate command to make a router originate a 0.0.0.0 type 5 LSA even if the router does not have a default route in its routing table.

Troubleshoot

There is currently no specific troubleshooting information available for this configuration.

Related Information

• OSPF Database Explanation Guide
• OSPF Support Page
• IP Routing Support Page
• Technical Support - Cisco Systems