Hi,
Authentication type simple does not work, because bird sends 256 instead of 1 in auth type field.
The reason is the wrong byte order.
I suggest these corrections in proto/ospf/packet.c to fix this.
Best regards: Joseph
 
 
# diff -u ../../../tmp/bird-1.0.7/proto/ospf/packet.c packet.c
--- ../../../tmp/bird-1.0.7/proto/ospf/packet.c Thu Aug 14 10:13:14 2003
+++ packet.c    Fri Sep 12 23:50:45 2003
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 ospf_tx_authenticate(struct ospf_iface *ifa, struct ospf_packet *pkt)
 {
   int i;
-  pkt->autype=ifa->autype;
+  pkt->autype=htons(ifa->autype);
   memcpy(pkt->authetication, ifa->aukey, 8);
   return;
 }
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 ospf_rx_authenticate(struct ospf_iface *ifa, struct ospf_packet *pkt)
 {
   int i;
-  if(pkt->autype!=ifa->autype) return 0;
+  if(pkt->autype!=htons(ifa->autype)) return 0;
   if(ifa->autype==AU_NONE) return 1;
   if(ifa->autype==AU_SIMPLE)
   {