[SOLVED] Static route not applied after update to 22.1.5

[clarknova]

OPNsense 22.1.5-amd64

This firewall was running 22.1.2_1 until today and statics routes were applied as expected. After upgrading to 22.1.5, one of my many static routes is not active and I haven't been able to determine why not.

In the attached 'configured.png' you can see that 10.31/16 should be routed via 10.16.3.2. But in 'status.png' you see that this network is routed via 172.16.43.9 as a result of a demoted OSPF peer.

I restarted FRR and reapplied the static route configuration, but the problem persists. I checked in System > Routes > Log File but there is nothing in there to indicate a problem. Any idea why this route does not apply while other static routes do?

[clarknova]

I rebooted the firewall and I was able to reach it for a short time via this static route, but within a minute or two the static route was removed, or perhaps overwritten by the OSPF route.

[5SpeedFun]

Generally I think in most devices that do routing, static should be preferred over ospf.  Did you give ospf a higher "administrative distance" somehow?  Can you share more of your frr config?  Any idea what the old version of frr was before you upgraded?  I assume it got upgraded with the system upgrade.

[clarknova]

This is the backup router in a pair, "routerb". The primary "routera" is still running OPNsense 22.1.2_1. Both report FRR version 7.5.1. I've attached both FRR running configs as reported in Routing > Diagnostics > General > Running Configuration.

You'll notice that both config are identical except:

• hostname
• cost is manually set to 100 on Wireguard interfaces on routera
• cost is set to 65535 on all interfaces on routerb due to "CARP Demote" setting (which is set but not visible in the attachements).

[clarknova]

After another reboot today this is working as expected. I was able to then update to 22.1.6 and all is well.   :shrug: