Hi Mike, I agree and don't see why this one configuration error should be handled explicitly when there are many other possible errors. Actually, I'd looked at this text before and meant to address it since I'd never implement this. I'll discuss with the other authors. Thanks, Acee
On Oct 7, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Mike Dubrovskiy (mdubrovs) wrote: > Hi Acee, > > I like the change but we currently have the following text in rfc6506 > > "In the event that the last key associated > with an interface expires, it is unacceptable to revert to an > unauthenticated condition and not advisable to disrupt routing. > Therefore, the router SHOULD send a "last Authentication Key > expiration" notification to the network operator and treat the key as > having an infinite lifetime until the lifetime is extended, the key > is deleted by the network operator, or a new key is configured." > > The above text is difficult to apply to Accept keys. It should be either > deleted > or modified. > > Thank you, > Mike > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Acee Lindem >> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 1:25 PM >> To: OSPF List >> Subject: [OSPF] One more RFC 6506BIS Clarification >> >> One more thing I intend to add is explicit specification that the OSPFv3 >> packet >> should be dropped if the Security Association isn't found or has expired. The >> text is analogous to the original RFC 2328 Appendix D text. This will be >> added >> to section 4.6. >> >> *************** >> *** 976,981 **** >> --- 976,986 ---- >> and the IPv6 header length is less than the amount necessary to >> include an Authentication Trailer. >> >> + Locate the receiving interface's OSPFv3 SA using the SA ID in the >> + received AT. If the SA is not found, or if the SA is not valid for >> + reception (i.e., current time < KeyStartAccept or current time >= >> + KeyStopAccept), the OSPFv3 packet is dropped. >> + >> If the cryptographic sequence number in the AT is less than or equal >> to the last sequence number in the last OSPFv3 packet of the same >> OSPFv3 type successfully received from the neighbor, the OSPFv3 >> >> Although I would hope no one would complain about this since it was always >> implied in section 3 (see excerpt below), please speak now if you have any >> concerns. >> >> o Security Association Identifier (SA ID) >> >> This is a 16-bit unsigned integer used to uniquely identify an >> OSPFv3 SA, as manually configured by the network operator. >> >> The receiver determines the active SA by looking at the SA ID >> field in the incoming protocol packet. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSPF mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ospf _______________________________________________ OSPF mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ospf
