Re: OSPF MD5 authentication

Hi Chris,

  Thanks for the reply and the verification of the same.

Regards
Anantha Subramanian Natarajan

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Chris Breece <cbreece1_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I couldn't reproduce this either, but I've heard the same thing. It might
> be
> a version thing.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Anantha Subramanian Natarajan <
> anantha.natarajan_at_gravitant.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I heard(May be I didn't understood properly) that when we use MD5
> > authentication on OSPF between say R1 and R2,where R1 and R2 as
> configured
> > below and when we reload R1,while comming back,R1 will try to use the
> > youngest key-id(2) to authenticate with R2 for some around 10 minutes and
> > then it would try to use key-id 1 to get authenticated with R2.Is the
> > stated
> > above is right,if so,I may be missing something because when I tried
> > this,R1
> > got neighbor with R2 as soon the device came back after the reload.I am
> > sure
> > I misunderstood something. Also I tried the same with EIGRP but couldn't
> > find the above stated characterisics.Please correct me on the same.Thanks
> > for the help
> >
> > * R1*
> >
> > interface GigabitEthernet0/1
> > no switchport
> > ip address 172.16.1.1 255.255.255.252
> > ip ospf authentication message-digest
> > ip ospf message-digest-key 1 md5 test
> > ip ospf message-digest-key 2 md5 cisco
> >
> > *R2*
> >
> > interface GigabitEthernet0/1
> > no switchport
> > ip address 172.16.1.2 255.255.255.252
> > ip ospf authentication message-digest
> > ip ospf message-digest-key 1 md5 test
> > Regards
> > Anantha Subramanian Natarajan
> >
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