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The document discusses how to configure OSPF forwarding addresses to allow traffic to pass through routers. By default, OSPF routes only allow traffic on the advertising router. To fix this, the forwarding router R1's OSPF configuration was updated to include the 10.1.101.0/24 network. This causes R1 to set the forwarding address in LSAs to 10.1.101.1 instead of itself, allowing traffic from R2 to reach external networks through R1. Verifying the route on R2 now shows it goes through R1's interface in that network.

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The document discusses how to configure OSPF forwarding addresses to allow traffic to pass through routers. By default, OSPF routes only allow traffic on the advertising router. To fix this, the forwarding router R1's OSPF configuration was updated to include the 10.1.101.0/24 network. This causes R1 to set the forwarding address in LSAs to 10.1.101.1 instead of itself, allowing traffic from R2 to reach external networks through R1. Verifying the route on R2 now shows it goes through R1's interface in that network.

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Manual:OSPFForwardingAddress
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Applies
to
RouterOS:v3,v4,
v5+

LetsassumethatrouterR1hasstaticroutetoexternalnetwork192.168.0.0/24.OSPFis
runningbetweenR1,R2andR3andstaticrouteisdistributedacrosstheOSPFnetwork.
Theprobleminsuchsetupisobvious,R2cannotreachexternalnetworkdirectly.Traffic
fromR2willbeforwardedtorouterR1

[admin@R2]/iproute>print
Flags:Xdisabled,Aactive,Ddynamic,
Cconnect,Sstatic,rrip,bbgp,oospf,mmme,
Bblackhole,Uunreachable,Pprohibit
#DSTADDRESSPREFSRCGATEWAYDISTANCE
...
8ADo192.168.0.0/2410.1.101.10110

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FortunatelyOSPFhasmechanismtosolvesuchsituations.OSPFroutercanset
forwardingaddresstosomethingotherthanitselfwhichindicatesthatalternatenexthopis
possible.Mostlyforwardingaddressissetto0.0.0.0suggestingthattherouteisreachable
onlyviatheadvertisingrouter.
ForwardingaddressissetinLSA,iffollowingconditionsaremet:
OSPFmustbeenabledonnexthopinterface
Interfaceisnotpassive
Interfaceisnotp2porp2mp
Nexthopaddressfallsintonetworkprovidedinospfnetworks
Soknowingconditions,wecanmakerouterR1tosetforwardingaddress.Wesimplyneed
toadd10.1.101.0/24networktoOSPFnetworksinrouter'sR1configuration:
/routingospfnetworkaddnetwork=10.1.101.0/24area=backbone

Note:OSPFadjacencybetweenroutersin10.1.101.0/24networkisnotrequired

Nowletsverifythatforwardingaddressisactuallyworking:
[admin@R2]/iproute>print
Flags:Xdisabled,Aactive,Ddynamic,
Cconnect,Sstatic,rrip,bbgp,oospf,mmme,
Bblackhole,Uunreachable,Pprohibit
#DSTADDRESSPREFSRCGATEWAYDISTANCE
...
8ADo192.168.0.0/2410.1.101.1110

OnallOSPFroutersyouwillseeLSAsetwithforwardingaddressotherthan0.0.0.0
[admin@R2]/routingospflsa>printdetail
instance=defaultarea=externaltype=asexternalid=192.168.0.0
originator=10.1.101.1sequencenumber=0x80000073age=16checksum=0x8510
options="E"body=
netmask=255.255.255.0
forwardingaddress=10.1.101.1
metric=30
routetag=0x0
type1

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