OSPF Authentication for v2 and v3

When using the OSPF routing protocol:

OSPFv2 supports:

  • plain text authentication
  • MD5 authentication, based on RFC 2328
  • SMAC-SHA authentication based on RFC 5709

OSPFv3 supports:

  • authentication uses IPSec
  • authentication trailer based on RFC 6506

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2328 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5709 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6506