Re: Virtual Link Needs authentication

From: Andy Hogard (andyhogard@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 17 2009 - 20:04:55 ARST


Hmm, yep. :)

Are you sure because there is that authentication field in the update
message that needs to match. So is it specfic to a particular ios or its
just the defualt behaviour on cisco?

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:11 AM, karim jamali <karim.jamali@gmail.com>wrote:

> No it is not that. If you do on one side and not the other and keep the
> situation as it is (i mean do not relaod/or restart the ospf process)
> everything will appear to you as alright.Just try restarting the routers or
> clearing the ospf process and trouble will come.Then you will come to note
> that the both sides need to be authenticated for things to work properly.
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Andy Hogard <andyhogard@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Your answer seems to really veryy twisted.. so if authentciation i set on
> > one side and not on other, and if I do a reload of the ospf process the
> > V-link will come up, is it?!
> >
> > Andy.
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:42 AM, karim jamali <karim.jamali@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Naaman,
> >>
> >> Yes a virtual link is an interface in area 0 just like any other OSPF
> >> interface, but recall it is an OSPF demand circuit,i.e. even if you
> enable
> >> on one side authentication on the other side not you will not feel
> >> anything
> >> unless the process is cleared or the routers are reloaded. Everything
> will
> >> work fine with you until one of those 2 things happen.
> >>
> >> Regards,
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