2004-10-11 Paul Jakma <paul@dishone.st>

	* ospfd.texi: reformat the ospf md5 paragraph, add an additional
	  way to work around bad clocks.

diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index 625b2a74ba7ff2206d3ea95b423b05062f37872b..7d1211c788f2f7527446842b8d4432f9716da653 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-10-11 Paul Jakma <paul@dishone.st>
+
+       * ospfd.texi: reformat the ospf md5 paragraph, add an additional
+         way to work around bad clocks.
+
 2004-10-03 Hasso Tepper <hasso at quagga.net>
 
        * vtysh.1: Update vtysh man page to reflect changes in shell. Remove

diff --git a/doc/ospfd.texi b/doc/ospfd.texi
index 842dfcf402af397600cb75ca618f2b63258c4e64..aa66ce1581ac935c5260c93bbd8217fc0bd57825 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/ospfd.texi
+++ b/doc/ospfd.texi
@@ -258,12 +258,16 @@ all OSPF packets are authenticated. @var{AUTH_KEY} has length up to 8 chars.
 @deffnx {Interface Command} {no ip ospf message-digest-key} {}
 Set OSPF authentication key to a cryptographic password.  The cryptographic
 algorithm is MD5.  KEYID identifies secret key used to create the message
-digest.  KEY is the actual message digest key up to 16 chars. Note that OSPF
-MD5 authentication requires that time never go backwards, even across
-resets, if ospfd is to be able to promptly reestabish adjacencies with it's
-neighbours after restarts/reboots. The host should have system time be set
-at boot from an external source (eg battery backed clock, NTP, etc.) if MD5
-authentication is to be expected to work reliably.
+digest.  KEY is the actual message digest key up to 16 chars. 
+
+Note that OSPF MD5 authentication requires that time never go backwards
+(correct time is not important, only that it never goes backwards), even
+across resets, if ospfd is to be able to promptly reestabish adjacencies
+with its neighbours after restarts/reboots. The host should have system
+time be set at boot from an external source (eg battery backed clock, NTP,
+etc.) or else the system clock should be periodically saved to non-volative
+storage and restored at boot if MD5 authentication is to be expected to work
+reliably.
 @end deffn
 
 @deffn {Interface Command} {ip ospf cost <1-65535>} {}