From b21f68b4cd4794c84e5f0eb2c34204c87ccf0e9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 17:24:23 +0100
Subject: Fix bugs in OSPF MD5 authentication. First bug is that default values
 for MD5 password ID changed during reconfigure, Second bug is that BIRD
 chooses password in first-fit manner, but RFC says that it should use the one
 with the latest generate-from.

It also modifies the syntax for multiple passwords.
Now it is possible to just add more 'password' statements
to the interface section and it is not needed to use
'passwords' section. Old syntax can be used too.
---
 doc/bird.sgml | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc')

diff --git a/doc/bird.sgml b/doc/bird.sgml
index 9a12a71..6622c1a 100644
--- a/doc/bird.sgml
+++ b/doc/bird.sgml
@@ -1072,16 +1072,14 @@ protocol ospf &lt;name&gt; {
 			rx buffer [normal|large|&lt;num&gt;];
 			type [broadcast|nonbroadcast|pointopoint];
 			strict nonbroadcast &lt;switch&gt;;
-			authentication [none|simple];
+			authentication [none|simple|cryptographics];
 			password "&lt;text&gt;";
-			passwords {
-				password "&lt;text&gt;" {
-					id &lt;num&gt;;
-					generate from "&lt;date&gt;";
-					generate to "&lt;date&gt;";
-					accept from "&lt;date&gt;";
-					accept to "&lt;date&gt;";
-				};
+			password "&lt;text&gt;" {
+				id &lt;num&gt;;
+				generate from "&lt;date&gt;";
+				generate to "&lt;date&gt;";
+				accept from "&lt;date&gt;";
+				accept to "&lt;date&gt;";
 			};
 			neighbors {
 				&lt;ip&gt;;
@@ -1210,7 +1208,7 @@ protocol ospf &lt;name&gt; {
 	 very weak.
 
 	<tag>authentication cryptographic</tag>
-	 16-byte long md5 digest is appended to every packet. For the digest
+	 16-byte long MD5 digest is appended to every packet. For the digest
          generation 16-byte long passwords are used. Those passwords are 
          not sent via network, so this mechanismus is quite secure.
          Packets can still be read by an attacker.
@@ -1220,7 +1218,9 @@ protocol ospf &lt;name&gt; {
 
 	<tag>id <M>num</M></tag>
 	 ID of the password, (0-255). If it's not used, BIRD will choose
-	 some automatically.
+	 ID based on an order of the password item in the interface. For
+	 example, second password item in one interface will have default
+	 ID 2.  
 
 	<tag>generate from <M>date</M></tag>
 	 The start time of the usage of the password for packet signing.
@@ -1439,7 +1439,7 @@ RIP on networks where maximal distance is higher than 15 hosts. You can read mor
 URL="http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/rip-charter.html" name="http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/rip-charter.html">. Both IPv4  
 (RFC 1723<htmlurl url="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1723.txt">)
 and IPv6 (RFC 2080<htmlurl url="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2080.txt">) versions of RIP are supported by BIRD, historical RIPv1 (RFC 1058<htmlurl url="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1058.txt">)is
-not currently supported. RIPv4 md5 authentication (RFC 2082<htmlurl url="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2082.txt">) is supported.
+not currently supported. RIPv4 MD5 authentication (RFC 2082<htmlurl url="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2082.txt">) is supported.
 
 <p>RIP is a very simple protocol, and it has a lot of shortcomings. Slow
 convergence, big network load and inability to handle larger networks
@@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@ because there are no good implementations of OSPFv3.
 <descrip>
 	<tag/authentication none|plaintext|md5/ selects authentication method to be used. <cf/none/ means that
 	  packets are not authenticated at all, <cf/plaintext/ means that a plaintext password is embedded
-	  into each packet, and <cf/md5/ means that packets are authenticated using a md5 cryptographic
+	  into each packet, and <cf/md5/ means that packets are authenticated using a MD5 cryptographic
 	  hash. If you set authentication to not-none, it is a good idea to add <cf>passwords { }</cf>
 	  section. Default: none.
 
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