Unpacking is fun! Well, maybe not, considering I'm a neat freak, and there's tons of boxes lying around here, begging to be unpacked. Unfortunately, I can't really completely setup stuff until 1) My desk arrives and 2) The CAT5 wiring in this place gets fixed. At least the four deliveries went well. No scratches or problems at all.
Of course, can't let the day end without running into another routing problem on my network! So, I finished building my new nat/vpn Linux box here, and connected to Road Runner's network. Works well. I build a couple OpenVPN tunnels to my other sites, and enable OSPF via Quagga. I start running into some weird asymmetric routes, after realizing that my DNS server's inability to do a zone transfer for once isn't a BIND-related configuration issue. Anyway, I narrow down the problem to some stupidity between OpenVPN and Quagga. All of the tunnels I create are numbered, using a 32-bit netmask for each address. Quagga somehow sees the remote address as a connected route, and the local address as an OSPF-imported route. And, to further complicate things, most of my routers are also running IPtables, and seem to have trouble with asymmetric routes and keeping packet state, etc. Initially, I thought this was a FreeBSD-related issue, but routes to some local tunnel IPs on my Linux boxes were showing up as OSPF-imported, too. So, I tried adding a static route to the local IP, and redistributing static; no dice. Actually, I ended up ripping out most of the router ospf section, all the route maps, and started from scratch. Same thing. Soo ... anyone encounter this before?
Alright, I'd better hit the sack. Eyelids are shutting ...
