Re: OSPF Authentication Methods - (3)

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:50, Narbik Kocharians <narbikk_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> So OSPF can not work without authentication.

If you consider "null authentication" as "no authentication", then it
can. However, if you consider it as authentication, then no, it can't
:-).

I always approached OSPF authentication as a two-stage authentication
- one stage is type-match, the other one is password match. From that
perspective, I would agree with the statement above that OSPF cannot
work without the authentication, as the first-stage is always present
in the packets.

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