OSPF Stuck in EXSTART/EXCHANGE

There are several things to be satisfied before OSPF can establish its full adjacency. These are Area-ID, Stub-Flags, Interface-Type, Timers, Authentication, and MTU. These attributes must match to the other peering.

Let’s say that you have a scenario to create Q-in-Q which requires you to alter the default MTU to 1504 using system mtu 1504. The verification also shows that your system MTU is indeed 1504.

SWITCH-3560#sh system mtu

System MTU size is 1504 bytes
System Jumbo MTU size is 1504 bytes
Routing MTU size is 1500 bytes

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