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OSPF: LSA age 3600 seconds reached for 10.0.0.0/24, router 192.168.1.1, flushing

ID: networking/ospf-lsa-aging

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76%Fix Rate
84%Confidence
1Evidence
2024-11-05First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
Cisco IOS XE 17.12.1 active
Juniper Junos 22.3R1 active
FRRouting 9.1 active
Quagga 1.2.4 active

Root Cause

An OSPF Link State Advertisement (LSA) has reached its maximum age (MaxAge) of 3600 seconds, causing the originating router to flush it from the link-state database, potentially due to a flapping interface or a router that has gone down without sending a proper LSUpdate.

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中文

OSPF链路状态通告(LSA)已达到最大年龄(MaxAge)3600秒,导致原始路由器将其从链路状态数据库中刷新,可能是由于接口抖动或路由器在没有发送正确LSUpdate的情况下宕机。

Official Documentation

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2328

Workarounds

  1. 80% success Check the interface stability on the originating router: `show ip ospf interface` and look for flapping counters; if found, replace faulty hardware or reconfigure interface parameters.
    Check the interface stability on the originating router: `show ip ospf interface` and look for flapping counters; if found, replace faulty hardware or reconfigure interface parameters.
  2. 85% success Force the router to re-advertise the LSA by clearing the specific OSPF neighbor: `clear ip ospf neighbor 192.168.1.1`
    Force the router to re-advertise the LSA by clearing the specific OSPF neighbor: `clear ip ospf neighbor 192.168.1.1`

中文步骤

  1. Check the interface stability on the originating router: `show ip ospf interface` and look for flapping counters; if found, replace faulty hardware or reconfigure interface parameters.
  2. Force the router to re-advertise the LSA by clearing the specific OSPF neighbor: `clear ip ospf neighbor 192.168.1.1`

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. 100% fail

    The MaxAge is fixed at 3600 seconds per OSPF standard; cannot be changed without violating RFC compliance.

  2. 85% fail

    This disrupts all OSPF adjacencies and causes network-wide route flapping, making the problem worse.

  3. 90% fail

    Static routes are not propagated via OSPF LSAs and will not fix the aging issue; they may also cause routing loops.