Description
This article provides explanations on how to redistribute default route in OSPF with different metric, so the peer will get the route with lower than the default metric of 10.
Solution
Following syntax is used to advertise a default route in OSPF on a FortiGate.
# config router ospf
(ospf) set default-information-originate <option>
Available options are as below:
'enable': Enable setting. <----- This will send a default route if FortiGate has one in routing table.
'always': Always advertise the default router. <----- This will always send a default route.
'disable': Disable setting.
To do not advertise a default route to some OSPF neighbors behind specific OSPF interfaces:
1) Not enable OSPF on those interfaces if this is possible (a static default route towards the ISPs routers might be enough in most cases).
2) Set those interfaces as passive interfaces if the subnet has to be advertised as OSPF routes but not forming adjacency
From the GUI, see the same options:
By default, the redistributed default route is with the metric of 10.
In order to change the metric for the default route, you can use the following options (CLI):
In order to change the metric for the default route, you can use the following options (CLI):
# config router ospfThe result is the following external LSA generated from the advertising FortiGate:
set default-information-originate enable
set default-information-metric 1 <----- It is possible to use metric if needed.
set default-information-metric-type type 1 | type2
AS External Link States.
LS age: 551In the routing table of the peer, it is possible to confirm that the route is with metric of 1:
Options: 0x2 (*|-|-|-|-|-|E|-)
LS Type: AS-external-LSA
Link State ID: 0.0.0.0 (External Network Number)
Advertising Router: 172.16.20.2
LS Seq Number: 80000001
Checksum: 0xb475
Length: 36
Network Mask: /0
Metric Type: 2 <----- Larger than any link state path.
TOS: 0
Metric: 1
Forward Address: 10.200.1.1
External Route Tag: 0
# get router info routing-table data
Codes: K - kernel, C - connected, S - static, R - RIP, B - BGP
O - OSPF, IA - OSPF inter area
N1 - OSPF NSSA external type 1, N2 - OSPF NSSA external type 2
E1 - OSPF external type 1, E2 - OSPF external type 2
i - IS-IS, L1 - IS-IS level-1, L2 - IS-IS level-2, ia - IS-IS inter area
> - selected route, * - FIB route, p - stale info
Routing table for VRF=0
O E2 0.0.0.0/0 [110/1] via 10.200.1.1, port1, 00:22:17
S *> 0.0.0.0/0 [10/0] via 172.16.31.254, port10
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