Alcatel-Lucent 6850-48 Guida Di Riferimento

OSPF Commands

OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide

page 41-31

Sets the OSPF interface authentication type. Authentication allows the router to only respond to other 
routers that have the correct authentication information.

ip ospf interface {interface_name} auth-type [none | simple | md5]

The name of the interface.

No authentication.

Simple, clear text authentication.

MD5 encrypted authentication.

OmniSwitch 6850, 6855, 9000, 9000E

• Use this command to set the type of authentication that the OSPF interface uses to validate requests for 

route information from other OSPF neighbors on this interface.

• Simple authentication is authentication that uses only a text string as the password. The authentication 

type simple is used in conjunction with the auth-key keyword described, on 

.

• MD5 authentication is encrypted authentication that uses an encryption key string and a key identifica-

tion number. Both of these are necessary as the password. The authentication type md5 is used in 
conduction with the commands described on 

. One command enables MD5 

and the other sets the key identification number.

-> ip ospf interface vlan-101 auth-type-simple

Release 6.1; command was introduced.
Release 6.2.1; ip_address parameter deprecated.