Subject: Re: RFC2385 - pretty please?
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/21/2004 15:43:39
Is anyone working on this?  If not, I'll try waving a sharp stick at it;
try to integrate what OpenBSD has done.

Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:59:02PM -0700, Jeff Rizzo:
> So, last summer (Late May) there was some discussion about RFC 2385
> support ("Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature") which
> had been written but not committed due to lack of time on the part
> of the developer(s) who had written it.  Is there someone I can buy a
> beer or two to persuade to revisit this?  :)  It would be nice to
> be able to continue to use NetBSD for BGP applications now that many
> peers are demanding MD5 session authentication...
> 
> Yes, IPSec would be more appropriate, but since the 500lb gorilla
> supports this way...
> 
> Thanks!
> +j
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Rizzo                                         http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz