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RFC 6506, "Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3", February 2012

Note: This RFC has been obsoleted by RFC 7166

Source of RFC: ospf (rtg)

Errata ID: 3567
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Marek Karasek
Date Reported: 2013-03-27
Held for Document Update by: Stewart Bryant
Date Held: 2013-09-17

Section 2.2 says:

   Consistent with OSPFv2 Cryptographic Authentication [RFC2328], both
   OSPFv3 header checksum calculation and verification are omitted when
   the OSPFv3 authentication mechanism described in this specification
   is used.

It should say:

Please see notes

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OSPFv3 authentication mechanism provides capability to detect 
corruption of OSPFv3 packet, which is under non authenticated 
operation achieved using OSPFv3 header checksum [RFC 5340] 
and LLS data block checksum [RFC 5613]. In spirit of OSPFv2 
Cryptographic Authentication [RFC2328], OSPFv3 header checksum 
and LLS Data Block Checksum calculation and verification 
are omitted when the OSPFv3 authentication mechanism 
described in this specification is used.

Notes:

Readers should consult: draft-ietf-ospf-rfc6506bis for the
resolution of this Erratum

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RFC does not specify how to work with LLS Data Block Checksum.
Errata suggests omit checksum calculation/verification in the
same way like for OSPFv3 header checksum.

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