Awesome, makes perfect sense. Thanks for the info.

From: Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2019 3:47 PM
To: St. Hilaire, Joshua <jsthilaire@atlanticbb.com>
Cc: bird-users@network.cz
Subject: Re: OSPF MD5 Authentication Fails When Using Instance ID

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 06:46:01PM +0000, St. Hilaire, Joshua wrote:
> OSPF MD5 authentication appears to fail with an unknown auth type 1026
> when you specify an "instance ID" in BIRD, regardless of whether you
> specify the instance ID on the interface or not. Removing all occurrences
> of "instance ID" from bird.conf and re-committing the configuration
> appears to restore the correct auth type "cryptographic (2)". BIRD
> configuration and tcpdump info below.

Hi

See this: http://trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2019-March/013218.html

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