December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
25h 14m
English
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Name
area authentication — router, OSPF
Synopsis
areaarea-idauthentication [message-digest] no areaarea-idauthentication
Configures
OSPF authentication
Default
No authentication
Description
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.
Example
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
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