FreeBSD 9-RC1, openbgpd, tcp md5

Crest crest at informatik.uni-bremen.de
Sun Nov 6 15:08:36 UTC 2011


On 04.11.2011 11:13, Borja Marcos wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm testing a set up for OpenBGPd with FreeBSD 9-RC1 (amd64). For now I'm trying on two virtual machines. Using the stock GENERIC kernel it works, although of course it doesn't have TCP MD5 support, which I require.
>
> I've compiled new kernels with the TCP MD5 support (options IPSEC, device crypto and options TCP_SIGNATURE), and after installing it on both machines OpenBGPd no longer works. No matter if I try to configure the bgp sessions with TCP-MD5 or not, the sessions won't work.
>
> Any ideas? As far as I know, this shoud work. The daemon is complaning that there's no kernel support for pf_key.
>
>
> FreeBSD pruebazfs3 9.0-RC1 FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 #10: Fri Nov  4 10:32:41 UTC 2011     borjam at pruebazfs1:/usr/obj/rpool/newsrc/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

Afaik you have to set the TCP-MD5 key with setkey (from 
security/ipsec-tools) on FreeBSD. Try removing your TCP-MD5 parameters 
from bgpd.conf.



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