OSPF - stuck in init/drother

[dvino821]

I can't seem to get OSPF adjacency established between an ESG and an LDR. Any help is much appreciated.

- from the ESG, the output of "show ip ospf nei" shows the LDR as a neighbor, but the state is init/drother

- form the LDR, the output of "show ip ospf nei" shows nothing.

- from the ESG, the output of "debug ip ospf" shows hello packets being sent and received

- from the LDR, the output of "debug ip ospf" shows hello packets being sent, but not received.

- from the ESG, the output of "debug packet display interface vNic_1 -vv" shows the ESG (172.16.254.1) sending hello packets that include the LDR (172.16.254.2) in the neighbor list..

- from the ESG, the output of "debug packet display interface vNic_2 -vv" shows the ESG (172.16.254.1) hello packets coming in, but adjacency is never established

Environment:

  NSX 6.1.1

  ESG internal interface, the LDR uplink and the LDR management are all on the same logical switch.

  OSPF: the protocol address is set LDR management IP and the forwarding address is set to the LDR uplink IP

  The transport zone spans to esxi clusters

[GeordyKorte]

Please check you firewall configuration, after that trying ping from the ESG and LDR to each other.

[dvino821]

Thanks!

I disabled the firewall on both devices during troubleshooting. I can ping the ESG internal interface from the LDR and I can ping LDR management from ESG.

Noteworthy

- I am NOT able to ping the LDR uplink from anywhere

- When I "show interfaces" on the LDR. The management IP is listed on both vNICs that are up (not sure why, I have checked and rechecked the config).

[admin · Accepted solution]

> LDR uplink and the LDR management are all on the same logical switch

Please remove IP address from DLR's Management interface..

[dvino821]

Thanks! That fixed it.