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Date:      Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:16:54 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Nik <nikruzhan@gmail.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BGP: can't set sockopt TCP_MD5SIG 0 to socket 16
Message-ID:  <44312E56.3040606@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <60ffc71f0604030255h3b418706vfaf51bb5f088dff3@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <60ffc71f0604030126w60070561i9781729205d3790d@mail.gmail.com> <1144055468.15377.12.camel@bert.mlan.solnet.ch> <60ffc71f0604030255h3b418706vfaf51bb5f088dff3@mail.gmail.com>

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Nik wrote:
> I'm curious why I need to enable MD5 because in my system I don't use any
> authentication method. [ ... ]

Using the MD5 signature TCP option for BGP has become a common requirement since
the RST-window vulnerability was published...

-- 
-Chuck




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