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[Frédéric LOUI <>]

In Eoin case’s this RFP was blazingly _FAST_ ! :)

>  reasonably quickly 
This was what we called in French: "une figure de style de type:  antiphrase "

Again kudos to mc36 for his unwavering development support !


> Le 3 déc. 2021 à 14:08, Tim Chown <> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Eoin,
> 
> I think this is just another very good example of the benefit of having an 
> open, community developed platform such as RARE running FreeRtr.  New 
> features can be added reasonably quickly based on user requests from the 
> community, such as PolKA, the policy routing for CERN, and the AMT relay 
> for the BIER/AMT work with IETF participants.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Tim
> 
>> On 3 Dec 2021, at 11:39, Eoin Kenny <> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Csaba,
>> 
>> Excellent, many thanks. Fastest feature request I have ever seen! 
>> Let me know when I can test it. 
>> 
>> Regards
>> Eoin
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mc36 <> 
>> Sent: Thursday 2 December 2021 17:07
>> To: ; Eoin Kenny <>
>> Subject: Re: [RARE-users] ISIS MD5 hello config
>> 
>> CAUTION[External]: This email originated from outside of the organisation. 
>> Do not click on links or open the attachments unless you recognise the 
>> sender and know the content is safe.
>> 
>> 
>> hi,
>> a decision is made here so i just added this md5 stuff for ospf with these 
>> changes:
>> https://github.com/mc36/freeRouter/commit/908ef281b3e26891c94ac0a1bfc09ce6f9765d46
>> now some test cases need to cover the functionality then i'll proceed to 
>> isis md5...
>> regards,
>> cs
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/2/21 09:56, Eoin Kenny wrote:
>>> Hi Csaba,
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the links. I am using a Juniper at the other end. The ISIS 
>>> group configuration contains the md5 config for the interfaces, but you 
>>> can override the global config by explicitly configuring the interfaces 
>>> under the protocol ISIS.
>>> So the following works fine.
>>> ekenny@edge1-testlab> show configuration protocols isis interface 
>>> ge-1/1/8.0 hello-padding disable; level 1 disable; level 2 {
>>>    hello-authentication-key "$9removed"; ## SECRET-DATA
>>>    hello-authentication-type simple; } ekenny@edge1-testlab>
>>> 
>>> edge5-testlab#show running-config ethernet3 interface ethernet3
>>> description "Link to edge1-testlab"
>>> vrf forwarding isisvrf
>>> ipv4 address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.254
>>> router isis4 1 enable
>>> router isis4 1 circuit level2
>>> router isis4 1 password $v10$removed==
>>> no shutdown
>>> no log-link-change
>>> exit
>>> 
>>> Thank you for your help.
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> Eoin
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From:  
>>> <> On Behalf Of mc36
>>> Sent: Wednesday 1 December 2021 15:43
>>> To: ; Eoin Kenny <>
>>> Subject: Re: [RARE-users] ISIS MD5 hello config
>>> 
>>> CAUTION[External]: This email originated from outside of the 
>>> organisation. Do not click on links or open the attachments unless you 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> hi,
>>> at the moment, freerouter can only do cleartext authentication on 
>>> interface or lsp level:
>>> http://sources.nop.hu/cfg/intop2-isis08.tst
>>> http://sources.nop.hu/cfg/intop2-isis11.tst
>>> in both tests, r1 is freerouter and r2 is xrv9k...
>>> regards,
>>> cs
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 12/1/21 14:23, Eoin Kenny wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I maybe missing something obvious but I could not see how to configure 
>>>> MD5 hello authentication for ISIS on freerouter. Any suggestions or 
>>>> points would be appreciated.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Eoin
>>>> 
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