ospf authentication status from bird cli?

Kenth Eriksson Kenth.Eriksson at infinera.com
Thu Sep 5 09:06:22 CEST 2019


On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 19:08 +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 12:19:34PM +0000, Kenth Eriksson wrote:
> > Is it possible to see ospf authentication status from bird cli? I have
> > seen that authentication failures are logged to file, but it would be
> > good to have it visible in cli as well.
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> No, we do not keep track of unauthenticated neighbors. It is probably not
> a good idea to create neighbors just to list authenticated issue, but
> could imagine it would make sense to have some per-interface statistics
> or buffer for interface errors, which could be accessible from CLI.
> 

Yes, if we could see the authentication status on the OSPF interface
that would be very good. Is this something that you think can become a
feature in bird in the near time?   
 
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