Potential OSPF authentication issues with Mikrotik routers

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 12:25:11AM +0000, Theera Kittichareonpot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> OSPF with cryptographic authentication does work now. In Mikrotiks 7.7, the auth-id is defaulted to 0. https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/OSPF Changing that to 1 does fix the problem. ^^

Hello

Yes, BIRD uses auth-id 1 by default (although 0 can be configured).

>  But there is no such option in Bird. Perhaps that's why Mikrotiks gave error about "authentication failed from X.X.X.X wrong SA ID"

There is option in BIRD to change auth-id:

https://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&v=20&f=bird-3.html#proto-pass-id

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