OSPF authentication supported for IPv6 / OSPFv3?

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Tue Mar 5 01:03:20 CET 2019


On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 08:56:10PM +0100, Cybertinus wrote:
> Hello Bird users,
> 
> I'm trying to get authentication enabled on my OSPF sessions. I'm running
> Bird 1.6.4 on Debian 9.8. I have the following config in my ospf.conf:

Hi

OSPFv3 in base spec does not have authentication. BIRD Implements RFC
7166 extension (Authentication trailer for OSPFv3) since version 2.0.3,
so it is not available in 1.6.4.

> When I check https://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&v=16&f=bird-6.html#ss6.8 I see
> the following:

This seems like a bug in documentation, where some patch intended for
BIRD 2.0 leaked also to 1.6 branch.

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