From: Scott Livingston (scottl@sprinthosting.net)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 13:01:51 GMT-3
What I have noticed is that if you configure authentication directly on
the AREA 0 interfaces and not under the PID then you do NOT need to
configure authentication for the VL.
If you configure the AREA 0 authentication under the PID and
corresponding command under the interface you will need to slap 'are 0
authentication' under the PID for the non AREA 0 VL router.... Unless
you 'null' out the auth on the VL non AREA 0 router.
Please correct me if memory is not serving me right.
Thank You,
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
aansar@sscomp.com.sg
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 8:54 PM
To: Benny Chong
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com; nobody@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: OSPF virtual link authentication
when you use virtual link . virtual link is considered as link in the
area 
0 , so if you have authentication in AREA 0  , virtual link should have 
authentication , and it has to be the same type of authentication
(simple 
or MD5) as configured in area 0. and if you configure authentication
(any) 
 in area 0 all interfaces of area 0 must have same authentication . all 
this is true if you are using  older ios , i think WITH  IOS 11.0 are 
earlier. 
now with 12.X and above  you can have authentication as you required 
combinations 
1. area 0 can have authentication and virtual link without any 
authentication
2.area 0 can have simple authentication , interfaces of area 0 can have 
different authentication say MD5
3. area 0 with authentication , other areas without any authentication
4. area 0 with auth , virtual link without any auth
you have to add this <area 1 virtual-link 200.0.0.7 authentication
message-diggest> first before 
keying in the key
or you can use null authentication for the virtual link. 
hope i am correct , if not , pls correct me . 
thanks
aa
"Benny Chong" <c_benny@hotmail.com>
Sent by: nobody@groupstudy.com
01-11-02 10:29 AM
Please respond to "Benny Chong"
 
        To:     ccielab@groupstudy.com
        cc: 
        Subject:        OSPF virtual link authentication
Hi all experts,
------R1--------R2---------R3---------R4--------
area1    area0     area0      area1      area2
if area 0 is running md5 authentication, when I configure the virutal
link 
between R3 and R4 to connect area 2 to area 0, I think I need to
configure 
authentication for the virtual link, because when i 'debug ip ospf adj',
i 
saw R3 is showing message that it receive authentication packet from R4,
but 
the authentication type didn't match.  I try to configure
area 1 virtual-link 200.0.0.7 message-digest-key 1 md5 cisco
on both R3 and R4, but it didn't work.  Anyone has an idea?
Thanks!
Benny
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