I saw few books says that OSPF neighbors will become adjacent if one or both of the neighbors are using unnumbered interfaces between them. But I observed completely opposite behavior when I checked it in lab.
R3#sho ip ospf ne
Neighbor ID Pri State Dead Time Address Interface
2.2.2.2 0 FULL/ - 00:00:37 192.168.23.2 Serial1/1
4.4.4.4 0 FULL/ - 00:00:39 192.168.34.4 Serial1/0
R3#
R3(config)#int s1/0
R3(config-if)#ip unnumbered lo 0
R3(config-if)#
*Mar 2 06:31:01.600: %OSPF-5-ADJCHG: Process 1, Nbr 4.4.4.4 on Serial1/0
The adjacency will not come back up. Let’s configure R4:
R4(config)#int s1/1
R4(config-if)#ip unnumbered lo 0
R4(config-if)#
*Mar 2 06:33:14.288: %OSPF-5-ADJCHG: Process 1, Nbr 3.3.3.3 on Serial1/1
from LOADING to FULL, Loading Done
So It means both side should be unnumbered to be for the adjacency. However i was using IOS version12.4(7). So maybe this was not the case awhile ago, but right now it seems so.
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