OSPF fails after birdc "configure"

[Roberto Moreda]

Hi!

Using bird for OSPF I've found that after two fast and consecutive
configuration reloads (using birdc, command "configure") the md5 authentication
fails, logging something like that:

18-07-2005 16:21:16 <ERR> Bad OSPF packet from 192.168.1.20 -
authentification failed
18-07-2005 16:21:16 <ERR> Bad OSPF packet from 192.168.2.20 -
authentification failed
...

As side effect the bird process on other OSPF nodes die with signal 11 
(!)

All works again if bird is restarted on the reconfigured node and on the
others who died.

The password config section on the ospf protocol defined is something
like:

                ...
                interface "tun*" {
                        authentication cryptographic;
                        passwords { password "verysecretindeed"; };
                };
                ...

Do you any issues on stability of bird using birdc to reload configuration and
such?

Thanks in advance.

	Roberto

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Roberto Moreda
Allenta Consulting
UNIX, Linux & Security Services