Touble ospf md5 authentication

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Fri Mar 19 17:59:27 CET 2010


On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 05:52:04PM +0159, Vitaliy Kolodinsky wrote:
> > Hmm, it seems that Cisco just sends some trash after the end of OSPF packet.
> > Perhaps it would suffice to remove the check in BIRD, but i personally
> > don't test this compatibility.
> 
> In area 0.0.0.2 works some Cisco routers, Quagga and experimental
> BIRD. Cisco and Quagga work perfectly together.
> Cisco at the end of OSPF Hello packet sent LLS Data Block.
> Quagga this unit is not sending.
> LLS Data Block is mentioned in the IETF RFC 4813
> May participate in the testing.

Yes, LLS data blocks in OSPF packets is the cause of the problem. Thank
you for a note, i didn't know about RFC 4813. I will look at this
issue and send you the patch for BIRD to be able to handle LLS data
blocks.

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