RFC 7166: Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3

Currently, OSPF for IPv6 (OSPFv3) uses IPsec as the only mechanism for authenticating protocol packets. This behavior is different from authentication…

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Outgoing relationships (17 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 6506: Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 2328: OSPF Version 2
Normative reference — RFC 5340: OSPF for IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 5709: OSPFv2 HMAC-SHA Cryptographic Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 5226: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Informative reference — RFC 2104: HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Informative reference — RFC 4302: IP Authentication Header
Informative reference — RFC 5310: IS-IS Generic Cryptographic Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 5996: Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
Informative reference — RFC 4552: Authentication/Confidentiality for OSPFv3
Informative reference — RFC 6039: Issues with Existing Cryptographic Protection Methods for Routing Protocols
Informative reference — RFC 4822: RIPv2 Cryptographic Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 5613: OSPF Link-Local Signaling
Informative reference — RFC 4222: Prioritized Treatment of Specific OSPF Version 2 Packets and Congestion Avoidance
Informative reference — RFC 5879: Heuristics for Detecting ESP-NULL Packets

Incoming relationships (14 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9182: A YANG Network Data Model for Layer 3 VPNs
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9513: OSPFv3 Extensions for Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9129: YANG Data Model for the OSPF Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9834: YANG Data Models for Bearers and Attachment Circuits as a Service (ACaaS)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9835: A Network YANG Data Model for Attachment Circuits
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7503: OSPFv3 Autoconfiguration
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8177: YANG Data Model for Key Chains
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7471: OSPF Traffic Engineering (TE) Metric Extensions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8666: OSPFv3 Extensions for Segment Routing
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9099: Operational Security Considerations for IPv6 Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9356: Advertising Layer 2 Bundle Member Link Attributes in OSPF
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9492: OSPF Application-Specific Link Attributes
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8920: OSPF Application-Specific Link Attributes
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9104: Distribution of Traffic Engineering Extended Administrative Groups Using the Border Gateway Protocol - Link State (BGP-LS)