Deployment Guide

OSPFv3 Commands
The fundamental mechanisms of OSPF (ooding, DR election, area support, SPF calculations, and so on) remain unchanged. However,
OSPFv3 runs on a per-link basis instead of on a per-IP-subnet basis. Most changes were necessary to handle the increased address size of
IPv6.
The Dell Networking implementation of OSPFv3 is based on IETF RFC 2740.
area authentication
Congure an IPsec authentication policy for OSPFv3 packets in an OFSPFv3 area.
Syntax
area area-id authentication ipsec spi number {MD5 | SHA1} [key-encryption-type]
key
Parameters
area area-id
Area for which OSPFv3 trac is to be authenticated. For area-id, you can enter a number.
The range is from 0 to 4294967295.
ipsec spi number
Security Policy index (SPI) value that identies an IPsec security policy.
The range is from 256 to 4294967295.
MD5 | SHA1
Authentication type: Message Digest 5 (MD5) or Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1).
key-encryption-
type
(OPTIONAL) Species if the key is encrypted.
The values are 0 (key is not encrypted) or 7 (key is encrypted).
key
Text string used in authentication.
For MD5 authentication, the key must be 32 hex digits (non-encrypted) or 64 hex digits
(encrypted).
For SHA-1 authentication, the key must be 40 hex digits (non-encrypted) or 80 hex digits
(encrypted).
Defaults Not congured.
Command Modes ROUTER OSPFv3
Supported Modes Full—Switch
Command History
Version Description
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the FN IOM.
9.2(0.0) Introduced on the MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module.
Usage Information Before you enable IPsec authentication on an OSPFv3 area, you must rst enable OSPFv3 globally on the router.
Congure the same authentication policy (same SPI and key) on each interface in an OSPFv3 link.
960 Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3)