OSPF: Authentication commands

From: Niall El-Assaad (nelassaa@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Apr 30 2001 - 16:20:37 GMT-3


   
Hi,

When configuring authentication for cleartext you use
(config-router)#area x authentication
(config-if)#ip ospf authentication-key [password]

When doing it for md5 you use
(config-router)#area x authentication message-digest
(config-if)#ip ospf message-digest-key [keyno] md5 [password]

My question is what is the need for the interface command
ip ospf authentication

The docs say it is new in 12.0 but why is it needed?

cheers,

niall

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