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PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 6506

Authors:

M. Bhatia
V. Manral
A. Lindem

Stream:

IETF

Source:

ospf (rtg)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7166

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Abstract

Currently, OSPF for IPv6 (OSPFv3) uses IPsec as the only mechanismfor authenticating protocol packets. This behavior is different fromauthentication mechanisms present in other routing protocols (OSPFv2,Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS), RIP, and RoutingInformation Protocol Next Generation (RIPng)). In some environments,it has been found that IPsec is difficult to configure and maintainand thus cannot be used. This document defines an alternativemechanism to authenticate OSPFv3 protocol packets so that OSPFv3 doesnot depend only upon IPsec for authentication.

The OSPFv3 Authentication Trailer was originally defined in RFC 6506.This document obsoletes RFC 6506 by providing a revised definition,including clarifications and refinements of the procedures.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.