Re: MD5 -OSPF Authentication ??

From: Les Hardin (hardinl@xxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2001 - 19:07:58 GMT-3


   
As long as R3 is in a different area than the routes you are applying
authentication to on R1 and R2, you're ok. If all routes on all routers
are in the same area, I don't see how you can leave authentication off of
R3 and have it work.

Les

At 02:59 PM 4/2/2001 -0700, sanjay wrote:
>I am working on a lab where I have 3 routers accross a Frame Cloud. R1 is the
>hub and R2 & R3 are spokes. The lab says to configure R1 & R2 with OSPF MD5
>authentication and using password 'cisco". Then it says, make sure you can
>still see all the routes on R1, R2 & R3. Is this possible ?? I thought that
>MD5 authentication needs to be running on all 3 routers for them to get route
>updates from each other.?? Any comments
>
>thanks,
>Sanjay
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