I have a clustered SRX 550 pair. They are uplinked to a pair of fabriced Brocade VDX 6740s. Uplinked from there is a Brocade NetIron CER.
I've configured OSPF on each device and made sure they are in the same area. I've also added interfaces to the area and added network statements. The firewall and router are both staying in the ExStart State like this:
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root@SRX> show ospf neighbor
Address Interface State ID Pri Dead
192.168.1.1 reth0.0 ExStart 192.168.1.1 1 36
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SSH@CER#show ip ospf neighbor
Number of Neighbors is 1, in FULL state 0
Port Address Pri State Neigh Address Neigh ID Ev Opt Cnt
v99 192.168.1.1 128 EXST/BDR 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1 15382 0
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I know that MTU size tends to cause this problem so I've checked all MTU settings. Some were different but I forced them all to be 1548. So that is no longer an issue.
Any other ideas?