The ospf instance code is not properly handling the default route
when using default-information originate. This is because
the code is looking for the default route to be saved with an
instance of <ospf instance id> but we always save it as a instance
id of 0. In fact OSPF asks zebra for the default route as a special
case in instance 0, always.
Here is the correct behavior:
eva# show ip ospf data
OSPF Instance: 3
OSPF Router with ID (192.168.122.1)
AS External Link States
Link ID ADV Router Age Seq# CkSum Route
0.0.0.0 192.168.122.1 8 0x80000001 0xdb08 E2 0.0.0.0/0 [0x0]
eva# show ip route
Codes: K - kernel route, C - connected, S - static, R - RIP,
O - OSPF, I - IS-IS, B - BGP, E - EIGRP, N - NHRP,
T - Table, v - VNC, V - VNC-Direct, A - Babel, D - SHARP,
F - PBR, f - OpenFabric,
> - selected route, * - FIB route, q - queued, r - rejected, b - backup
t - trapped, o - offload failure
K>* 0.0.0.0/0 [0/100] via 192.168.119.1, enp39s0, 00:02:03
Fixes: #10251
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@nvidia.com>
This commit fixes a rather obscure bug that was causing the GR
topotest to fail on a frequent basis.
RFC 3623 specifies that a router acting as a helper to a restarting
neighbor should monitor topology changes and abort the GR procedures
when one is detected, falling back to normal OSPF operation.
ospfd uses the ospf_lsa_different() function to detect when the
content of an LSA has changed, which is considered as a topology
change. The problem is that ospf_lsa_different() can return true
even when the two LSAs passed as parameters are identical, provided
one LSA has the OSPF_LSA_RECEIVED flag set and the other not.
In the context of the ospf_gr_topo1 test, router rt6 performs
a graceful restart and a few seconds later acts as a helper for
router rt7. When it's acting as a helper for rt7, it still didn't
translate its NSSA Type-7 LSAs, something that happens only after 7
seconds (OSPF_ABR_TASK_DELAY) of the first SPF run. The translated
Type-5 LSAs on its LSDB were learned from the helping neighbors
(rt3 and rt7). It's then possible that the NSSA Type-7 LSAs might
be translated while rt6 is acting as helper for rt7, which causes
the daemon to detect a non-existent topology change only because
the OSPF_LSA_RECEIVED flag is unset in the recently originated
Type-5 LSA.
Fix this problem by ignoring the OSPF_LSA_RECEIVED flag when
comparing LSAs for the purpose of topology change detection.
In short, the bug would only show up when the restarting router
would start acting as a helper immediately after coming back up
(which would be hard to happen in the real world). The topotest
failures became more frequent after commit 6255aad0bc because of
the removal of the 'sleep' calls, which used to give ospfd more time
to converge before start acting as a helper for other routers. The
problem still occurred from time to time though.
Fixes#9983.
Signed-off-by: Renato Westphal <renato@opensourcerouting.org>
Do not return pointer to the newly created thread from various thread_add
functions. This should prevent developers from storing a thread pointer
into some variable without letting the lib know that the pointer is
stored. When the lib doesn't know that the pointer is stored, it doesn't
prevent rescheduling and it can lead to hard to find bugs. If someone
wants to store the pointer, they should pass a double pointer as the last
argument.
Signed-off-by: Igor Ryzhov <iryzhov@nfware.com>
Problem Statement :
===================
LSA with InitialSequenceNumber is not originated
after MaxSequenceNumber.
ANVL Test case 25.33 states:
============================
As soon as this flooding of a LSA with LS sequence number
MaxSequenceNumber has been acknowledged by all adjacent neighbors,
a new instance can be originated with sequence number of InitialSequenceNumber.
RCA :
=====
DUT did not originated LSA with INITIAL_SEQUENCE number even
after receiving ACK for max sequence LSA.
Code is not present to handle this situation in the lsa ack flow.
Fix :
=====
Add code to originate LSA with initial sequence number in the
LSA ack flow in case of wrap around sequence number.
Signed-off-by: Mobashshera Rasool <mrasool@vmware.com>
Fix CI Failure test_ospf_type5_summary_tc45_p0
Problem Statement:
==================
Summarised LSA is not flushed in OSPFv2 in below scenario:
1. Configure summary-address in ospfv2
2. redistribute static and connected.
3. Check the LSAs are received on neighbor.
4. Now remove all OSPFv2 configs, so neighbor will still have the summarised LSA.
5. Configure router ospf with redistribute static and connected.
6. Check the DB, summarised LSA is present although the configuration is not present.
7. Now configure the summary-address and remove the configuration after sometime.
8. The summarised LSA will be still present.
RCA:
==================
When self originated LSA is received from the neighbor and that
LSA is summarised one, the LSA is refreshed but a flag is not set
due to which it was not able to remove it later.
Fix:
==================
Set the originated flag when refreshing summarised LSA.
Signed-off-by: Mobashshera Rasool <mrasool@vmware.com>
Move `is_default_prefix` variations to `lib/prefix.h` and make the code
use the library version instead of implementing it again.
NOTE
----
The function was split into per family versions to cover all types.
Using `union prefixconstptr` is not possible due to static analyzer
warnings which cause CI to fail.
The specific cases that would cause this failure were:
- Caller used `struct prefix_ipv4` and called the generic function.
- `is_default_prefix` with signature using `const struct prefix *` or
`union prefixconstptr`.
The compiler would complain about reading bytes outside of the memory
bounds even though it did not take into account the `prefix->family`
part.
Signed-off-by: Rafael Zalamena <rzalamena@opensourcerouting.org>
RFC 3623 specifies the Graceful Restart enhancement to the OSPF
routing protocol. This PR implements support for the restarting mode,
whereas the helper mode was implemented by #6811.
This work is based on #6782, which implemented the pre-restart part
and settled the foundations for the post-restart part (behavioral
changes, GR exit conditions, and on-exit actions).
Here's a quick summary of how the GR restarting mode works:
* GR can be enabled on a per-instance basis using the `graceful-restart
[grace-period (1-1800)]` command;
* To perform a graceful shutdown, the `graceful-restart prepare ospf`
EXEC-level command needs to be issued before restarting the ospfd
daemon (there's no specific requirement on how the daemon should
be restarted);
* `graceful-restart prepare ospf` will initiate the graceful restart
for all GR-enabled instances by taking the following actions:
o Flooding Grace-LSAs over all interfaces
o Freezing the OSPF routes in the RIB
o Saving the end of the grace period in non-volatile memory (a JSON
file stored in `$frr_statedir`)
* Once ospfd is started again, it will follow the procedures
described in RFC 3623 until it detects it's time to exit the graceful
restart (either successfully or unsuccessfully).
Testing done:
* New topotest featuring a multi-area OSPF topology (including stub
and NSSA areas);
* Successful interop tests against IOS-XR routers acting as helpers.
Co-authored-by: GalaxyGorilla <sascha@netdef.org>
Signed-off-by: Renato Westphal <renato@opensourcerouting.org>
Log the LSA advertising router in addition to the LSA type and
ID in the places where that information is necessary to uniquely
identify the LSA in the LSDB.
This is useful, for example, to know exactly which LSA has changed
when the router is exiting from the GR helper mode when a topology
change was detected.
Signed-off-by: Renato Westphal <renato@opensourcerouting.org>
Description:
When opaque capability disabled/enabled , all the self-originated lsa will be
flushed and it will make the neighbours to renegotiate.
But here, external lsas are not being re-originated after negotiation
Fix:
Refresh/re-originate external lsas(Type-5 and Type-7) explicitly after
re-negotiation.
Signed-off-by: Rajesh Girada <rgirada@vmware.com>
The %p printf format specifier does already print the pointer address
with a leading "0x" prefix (indicating a hexadecimal number). There's
no need to add that prefix manually.
While here, replace explicit function names in log messages by
__func__.
Signed-off-by: Renato Westphal <renato@opensourcerouting.org>
When browsing or parsing OSPF LSA TLVs, we need to use the LSA length which is
part of the LSA header. This length, encoded in 16 bits, must be first
converted to host byte order with ntohs() function. However, Coverity Scan
considers that ntohs() function return TAINTED data. Thus, when the length is
used to control for() loop, Coverity Scan marks this part of the code as defect
with "Untrusted Loop Bound" due to the usage of Tainted variable. Similar
problems occur when browsing sub-TLV where length is extracted with ntohs().
To overcome this limitation, a size attribute has been added to the ospf_lsa
structure. The size is set when lsa->data buffer is allocated. In addition,
when an OSPF packet is received, the size of the payload is controlled before
contains is processed. For OSPF LSA, this allow a secure buffer allocation.
Thus, new size attribute contains the exact buffer allocation allowing a
strict control during TLV browsing.
This patch adds extra control to bound for() loop during TLV browsing to
avoid potential problem as suggested by Coverity Scan. Controls are based
on new size attribute of the ospf_lsa structure to avoid any ambiguity.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Dugeon <olivier.dugeon@orange.com>
This command will trigger the OSPF forwarding address suppression in
translated type-5 LSAs, causing a NSSA ABR to use 0.0.0.0 as a forwarding
address instead of copying the address from the type-7 LSA
Example: In a topology like: R1 --- R2(ABR) --- R3(ASBR)
R3 is announcing a type-7 LSA that is translated to type-5 by the R2 ABR.
The forwarding address in the type-5 is by default copied from the type-7
r1# sh ip os da external
AS External Link States
LS age: 6
Options: 0x2 : *|-|-|-|-|-|E|-
LS Flags: 0x6
LS Type: AS-external-LSA
Link State ID: 3.3.3.3 (External Network Number)
Advertising Router: 10.0.25.2
LS Seq Number: 80000001
Checksum: 0xcf99
Length: 36
Network Mask: /32
Metric Type: 2 (Larger than any link state path)
TOS: 0
Metric: 20
Forward Address: 10.0.23.3 <--- address copied from type-7 lsa
External Route Tag: 0
r2# sh ip os database
NSSA-external Link States (Area 0.0.0.1 [NSSA])
Link ID ADV Router Age Seq# CkSum Route
3.3.3.3 10.0.23.3 8 0x80000001 0x431d E2 3.3.3.3/32 [0x0]
AS External Link States
Link ID ADV Router Age Seq# CkSum Route
3.3.3.3 10.0.25.2 0 0x80000001 0xcf99 E2 3.3.3.3/32 [0x0]
r2# conf t
r2(config)# router ospf
r2(config-router)# area 1 nssa suppress-fa
r2(config-router)# exit
r2(config)# exit
r2# sh ip os database
NSSA-external Link States (Area 0.0.0.1 [NSSA])
Link ID ADV Router Age Seq# CkSum Route
3.3.3.3 10.0.23.3 66 0x80000001 0x431d E2 3.3.3.3/32 [0x0]
AS External Link States
Link ID ADV Router Age Seq# CkSum Route
3.3.3.3 10.0.25.2 16 0x80000002 0x0983 E2 3.3.3.3/32 [0x0]
r1# sh ip os da external
OSPF Router with ID (11.11.11.11)
AS External Link States
LS age: 34
Options: 0x2 : *|-|-|-|-|-|E|-
LS Flags: 0x6
LS Type: AS-external-LSA
Link State ID: 3.3.3.3 (External Network Number)
Advertising Router: 10.0.25.2
LS Seq Number: 80000002
Checksum: 0x0983
Length: 36
Network Mask: /32
Metric Type: 2 (Larger than any link state path)
TOS: 0
Metric: 20
Forward Address: 0.0.0.0 <--- address set to 0
External Route Tag: 0
r2# conf t
r2(config)# router ospf
r2(config-router)# no area 1 nssa suppress-fa
r2(config-router)# exit
r1# sh ip os da external
OSPF Router with ID (11.11.11.11)
AS External Link States
LS age: 1
Options: 0x2 : *|-|-|-|-|-|E|-
LS Flags: 0x6
LS Type: AS-external-LSA
Link State ID: 3.3.3.3 (External Network Number)
Advertising Router: 10.0.25.2
LS Seq Number: 80000003
Checksum: 0xcb9b
Length: 36
Network Mask: /32
Metric Type: 2 (Larger than any link state path)
TOS: 0
Metric: 20
Forward Address: 0.0.0.0 <--- address set to 0
External Route Tag: 0
r2# conf t
r2(config)# router ospf
r2(config-router)# no area 1 nssa suppress-fa
r2(config-router)# exit
r1# sh ip os da external
OSPF Router with ID (11.11.11.11)
AS External Link States
LS age: 1
Options: 0x2 : *|-|-|-|-|-|E|-
LS Flags: 0x6
LS Type: AS-external-LSA
Link State ID: 3.3.3.3 (External Network Number)
Advertising Router: 10.0.25.2
LS Seq Number: 80000003
Checksum: 0xcb9b
Length: 36
Network Mask: /32
Metric Type: 2 (Larger than any link state path)
TOS: 0
Metric: 20
Forward Address: 10.0.23.3 <--- address copied from type-7 lsa
External Route Tag: 0
Signed-off-by: ckishimo <carles.kishimoto@gmail.com>
Neither tabs nor newlines are acceptable in syslog messages. They also
break line-based parsing of file logs.
Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>
The #if 0 code in ospfd, has not been compiled since at least
2012. If we are at least 9 years old at this point with no effort
to use or save, we should just get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@nvidia.com>
Implement the below 2 CLIs to clear the current data in the process
and neighbor data structure.
1. clear ip ospf process
2. clear ip ospf neighbor
Signed-off-by: Mobashshera Rasool <mrasool@vmware.com>
Description:
Apis for creating/deleting aggregate routes.
Origination of summary route on behalf of matched external routes.
Signed-off-by: Rajesh Girada <rgirada@vmware.com>
Issue:
When the ospf area is changed from default to nssa or stub, the previously
advertised external LSAs are not removed from the neighbor.
The LSAs remain in database till maxage timeout.
Fix:
Advertise the external LSAs with age set to maxage and flood to the
nssa or stub area.
Signed-off-by: kssoman <somanks@gmail.com>
Description:
The follwoing helper exit scenarios are handled.
1. Recv Max age grace LSA from RESTARTER.
2. Grace timer expiry.
3. Due to topo change if lsa check is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Rajesh Girada <rgirada@vmware.com>
Remove mid-string line breaks, cf. workflow doc:
.. [#tool_style_conflicts] For example, lines over 80 characters are allowed
for text strings to make it possible to search the code for them: please
see `Linux kernel style (breaking long lines and strings)
<https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html#breaking-long-lines-and-strings>`_
and `Issue #1794 <https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/issues/1794>`_.
Scripted commit, idempotent to running:
```
python3 tools/stringmangle.py --unwrap `git ls-files | egrep '\.[ch]$'`
```
Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>
Default originate with route-map was broken. Routemap
was not getting applied for redistribute route but was
getting applied default route itself. No default route
was originated even when routemap was satisfied.
Signed-off-by: Santosh P K <sapk@vmware.com>
Replace sprintf with snprintf where straightforward to do so.
- sprintf's into local scope buffers of known size are replaced with the
equivalent snprintf call
- snprintf's into local scope buffers of known size that use the buffer
size expression now use sizeof(buffer)
- sprintf(buf + strlen(buf), ...) replaced with snprintf() into temp
buffer followed by strlcat
Signed-off-by: Quentin Young <qlyoung@cumulusnetworks.com>
Replace all `random()` calls with a function called `frr_weak_random()`
and make it clear that it is only supposed to be used for weak random
applications.
Use the annotation described by the Coverity Scan documentation to
ignore `random()` call warnings.
Signed-off-by: Rafael Zalamena <rzalamena@opensourcerouting.org>
Line break at the end of the message is implicit for zlog_* and flog_*,
don't put it in the string. Mid-message line breaks are currently
unsupported. (LF is "end of message" in syslog.)
Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@opensourcerouting.org>
We have a bunch of places that look for ORIGINAL_CODING. There is
nothing in our configure system to define this value and a quick
git blame shows this code as being original to the import a very
very long time ago. This is dead code, removing.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
This reverts commit 313919d6e3.
This is not the correct way to fix this.
- touching the LSDB to explicitly remove a MaxAge LSA is always wrong
and results in desynchronization of the entire routing domain
- the LSDB code correctly handles replacing a MaxAge LSA with a newly
issued one
- removing the old LSA resets the sequence numbers, which may cause
other routers to reject the new LSA as old
- the function was horribly misnamed
Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>
Neither ospf_external_lsa_originate_timer() nor
ospf_default_originate_timer() are actually timers. They're only
executed on router-ID changes to refresh a particular LSA type.
Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>
OSPFD uses -1 as a sentinel value for uninitialized metrics. When
applying a route map with a +/-metric to redistributed routes, we were
using -1 as our base value to increment or decrement on, which meant
that if you set e.g. +10, you would end up with a redistributed route of
metric 9.
This patch also removes an off-by-one sanity check that would cause a
set metric +1 or set metric 0 to result in a metric value of 20 :-)
Signed-off-by: Quentin Young <qlyoung@cumulusnetworks.com>
default-information originate does not work
if config is removed and re-added.
Ticket:CM-20026
Testing Done:
Validate default-information originate config
removed and re-added, check ospf lsa database, and peer
route cache entry for default route.
Signed-off-by: Chirag Shah <chirag@cumulusnetworks.com>
1) stream allocation cannot fail
2) some warnings were removed when functions safely ignored
the calling parameters being wrong.
3) some warnings were removed when functions did not consider
the state as an error since we did not return an error code.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
In all but one instance we were following this pattern
with ospf_lsa_new:
ospf_lsa_new()
ospf_lsa_data_new()
so let's create a ospf_lsa_new_and_data to abstract
this bit of fun and cleanup all the places where
it assumes these function calls can fail.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
There is no need to check for failure of a ALLOC call
as that any failure to do so will result in a assert
happening. So we can safely remove all of this code.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
The following types are nonstandard:
- u_char
- u_short
- u_int
- u_long
- u_int8_t
- u_int16_t
- u_int32_t
Replace them with the C99 standard types:
- uint8_t
- unsigned short
- unsigned int
- unsigned long
- uint8_t
- uint16_t
- uint32_t
Signed-off-by: Quentin Young <qlyoung@cumulusnetworks.com>
Inform the .clang-format file about LSDB_LOOP and
put the proper indentation for this loop into the
code.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
Some of the deprecated stream.h macros see such little use that we may
as well just remove them and use the non-deprecated macros.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Young <qlyoung@cumulusnetworks.com>
Currently, ospf external routers are part of struct
ospf_master which is not vrf aware ospf instance.
All ospf external routes are injected/leaked into all
vrfs.
Moved ospf external routes db to struct ospf to make
vrf aware, such one external routes learnt in one vrf
is not leaked into another vrf.
Ticket:CM-18855
Testing Done:
Inject external route in non-default vrf x, validated
ospf database across the vrf x, validated ospf routes
for vrf x.
Signed-off-by: Chirag Shah <chirag@cumulusnetworks.com>
Router-ID change or ospf instance going down,
send LS-Upd with MAXAGE to self origintated LSAs to
all ospf neighbors.
Ticket:CM-1576
Testing Done:
Bring R1 - R2, Change Router-ID on R2, restart frr on R2
Validated R1 ospf LSDB for max aged 3600 LSA from R2.
Signed-off-by: Chirag Shah <chirag@cumulusnetworks.com>
list_free is occassionally being used to delete the
list and accidently not deleting all the nodes.
We keep running across this usage pattern. Let's
remove the temptation and only allow list_delete
to handle list deletion.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
Convert the list_delete(struct list *) function to use
struct list **. This is to allow the list pointer to be nulled.
I keep running into uses of this list_delete function where we
forget to set the returned pointer to NULL and attempt to use
it and then experience a crash, usually after the developer
has long since left the building.
Let's make the api explicit in it setting the list pointer
to null.
Cynical Prediction: This code will expose a attempt
to use the NULL'ed list pointer in some obscure bit
of code.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
maxage_lsa using prefix structure to store in route_table.
The lsa pointer is 4-8 bytes depending on arch, but prefix member field
would be 1 byte. Use ptr field of prefix structure to store lsa pointer.
Also memset to initialize to avoid crash on ARM platform as same LSA is
referenced from multiple times during shutdown of ospf.
Signed-off-by: Chirag Shah <chirag@cumulusnetworks.com>
This reverts commit c14777c6bf.
clang 5 is not widely available enough for people to indent with. This
is particularly problematic when rebasing/adjusting branches.
Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@opensourcerouting.org>
log.c provides functionality for associating a constant (typically a
protocol constant) with a string and finding the string given the
constant. However this is highly delicate code that is extremely prone
to stack overflows and off-by-one's due to requiring the developer to
always remember to update the array size constant and to do so correctly
which, as shown by example, is never a good idea.b
The original goal of this code was to try to implement lookups in O(1)
time without a linear search through the message array. Since this code
is used 99% of the time for debugs, it's worth the 5-6 additional cmp's
worst case if it means we avoid explitable bugs due to oversights...
Signed-off-by: Quentin Young <qlyoung@cumulusnetworks.com>
The FSF's address changed, and we had a mixture of comment styles for
the GPL file header. (The style with * at the beginning won out with
580 to 141 in existing files.)
Note: I've intentionally left intact other "variations" of the copyright
header, e.g. whether it says "Zebra", "Quagga", "FRR", or nothing.
Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@opensourcerouting.org>
Pass pointer to pointer instead of assigning by return value. See
previous commit message.
To ensure that the behavior stays functionally correct, any assignments
with the result of a thread_add* function have been transformed to set
the pointer to null before passing it. These can be removed wherever the
pointer is known to already be null.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Young <qlyoung@cumulusnetworks.com>
The way thread.c is written, a caller who wishes to be able to cancel a
thread or avoid scheduling it twice must keep a reference to the thread.
Typically this is done with a long lived pointer whose value is checked
for null in order to know if the thread is currently scheduled. The
check-and-schedule idiom is so common that several wrapper macros in
thread.h existed solely to provide it.
This patch removes those macros and adds a new parameter to all
thread_add_* functions which is a pointer to the struct thread * to
store the result of a scheduling call. If the value passed is non-null,
the thread will only be scheduled if the value is null. This helps with
consistency.
A Coccinelle spatch has been used to transform code of the form:
if (t == NULL)
t = thread_add_* (...)
to the form
thread_add_* (..., &t)
The THREAD_ON macros have also been transformed to the underlying
thread.c calls.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Young <qlyoung@cumulusnetworks.com>
This ditches tv_add, tv_sub, tv_cmp, etc. in favour of
monotime{,_since,_until}() which actually makes the code much more
readable in some locations.
Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@opensourcerouting.org>
This patch improves zebra,ripd,ripngd,ospfd and bgpd so that they can
make use of 32-bit route tags in the case of zebra,ospf,bgp or 16-bit
route-tags in the case of ripd,ripngd.
It is based on the following patch:
commit d25764028829a3a30cdbabe85f32408a63cccadf
Author: Paul Jakma <paul.jakma@hpe.com>
Date: Fri Jul 1 14:23:45 2016 +0100
*: Widen width of Zserv routing tag field.
But also contains the changes which make this actually useful for all
the daemons.
Signed-off-by: Christian Franke <chris@opensourcerouting.org>
HAVE_OPAQUE_LSA is used by default and you have to actively turn it off
except that OPAQUE_LSA is an industry standard and used pretty much
everywhere. There is no need to have special #defines for this anymore.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
(cherry picked from commit 36fef5708d074a3ef41f34d324c309c45bae119b)
ospf->lsa_refresher_started is only used in relative timing to itself;
replace with monotonic clock which is appropriate for this.
Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@opensourcerouting.org>
When considering small networks that have extreme requirements on
availability and thus convergence delay, the timers given in the OSPF RFC
seem a little “conservative”, i.e., the delay between accepted LSAs and the
rate at which LSAs are sent. Cisco introduced two commands 'timers throttle
lsa all’ and 'timers lsa arrival’, which allow operators to tune these
parameters.
I have been writing a patch to also support 'timers lsa arrival’ fully and
‘timers throttle lsa all’ (without the throttling part) also in quagga.
