RFC 5880, "Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)", June 2010

Errata ID: 6818
Status: Rejected
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Nikolai Malykh
Date Reported: 2022-01-15
Rejected by: John Scudder
Date Rejected: 2022-05-09

Section 6.7.2 says:

      If the Auth Len field is not equal to the length of the password
      selected by the key ID, plus three, the packet MUST be discarded.

It should say:

      If the Auth Len field is not match to the length of the password
      selected by the key ID, plus three, the packet MUST be discarded.

Notes:

The value of the Auth Len field is the length of the password plus 3.
--VERIFIER NOTES--
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/rtg-bfd/ukbCzkS8NkTWdXEPvB9mlFtIiSQ/

This erratum proposes changing “is not equal” to “is not match”. As far as I can tell would make the text less, not more, precise.

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