August 2005
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area authentication — router, OSPF
areaarea-idauthentication [message-digest] no areaarea-idauthentication
OSPF authentication
No authentication
This command enables simple password authentication
for an OSPF network. All routers within the OSPF area must be configured to use the same password. The authentication password is set by the ip ospf authentication-key command.
area-id
The area to which this command applies.
message-digest
Enables MD5 authentication for the area.
The following configuration starts an OSPF process using authentication for area 0. The authentication key is letmein.
! Set the OSPF key on interface serial 0 to letmein interface serial 0 ip address 10.100.1.1 255.255.2255.0 ip ospf authentication-key letmein ! router ospf 99 network 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 area 0 area 0 authentication