Re: Rel 3.7 and OSPF checksum errors

Stephen Fisher (lithium@cia-g.com)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:56:03 -0600 (MDT)

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I had the problem when not using ANY passwords as well. It has been fixed
with 3.7 as well.

On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, W Christopher Martin wrote:

> The release notes for Release 3.7 state:
>
> OSPF on Cisco routers syslog a warning about OSPF Checksums every 15
> seconds. This was caused by the buffer for simple OSPF password not
> being properly cleared when MD5 encryption is used. This problem has
> now been fixed.
>
> Actually this release also fixes the same problem when simple (clear
> text) passwords are used with OSPF rather than MD5. And it wasn't only
> Cisco routers that complained about the errors (every 10 seconds in our
> case) - gated did as well, just not as frequently.

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