Re: ospf area authentication

From: Pat Chui (cui666@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 29 2005 - 03:42:50 GMT-3


John, according to your config. below, you haven't entered "ip ospf
authentication message-digest" commands in any of the routers, which
means no authentication process has been provoked.

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:07:57 +0000, John Matus <john_matus@hotmail.com> wrote:
> ok, here is the situation.
> i go to enable area authtication for 3 router connected in hub-and-spoke
> topology. the config is as follows:
>
> all router:
> router os 1
> area 1 authen message-digest
>
> int s0/0
> ip o message-digest-key 1 md5 cisco
>
> key chan cisco
> key 1
> key-string cisco
>
> so i've done that on the hub and one of the spokes, and the adjacencies of
> those 2 routers go down and up as i input the interface level commands, but
> the other spoke that is only configured with the area authentication and no
> the interface level authentication STILL maintains its adjacency. why
> exactly is that???? my expectation is that it would go down and stay down
> untill i've configured the interface level authentication...............or
> am i wrong (probably)....
>
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