I have been trying to run a simple IS-IS configuration between two routers and it seems that the neighborship between the two stays established even when one is configured with md5 authentication and the other is not. Is the message-digest for IS-IS actually working? I did not have enough time to look in the code to see whether it is actually used so I am asking here whether this is a known issue or not?

Also, I have a similar question for EIGRP. When configured without authentication, two neighbors are established and some routing information exchanged. When I tried to configure md5 authentication on one side, funny thing happened - the router WITH the authentication still accepted hello packets from the other router and listed this router as neighbor. The router WITHOUT authentication did not list the other one as neighbor but also refused to remove previously received routing information from the routing table. When authentication is enabled on both sides, the neighborship fails and is never established again. This leads me to an assumption that the message-digest does not work with EIGRP. Did anyone else encounter this?

EIGRP example here:

Router with authentication:

interface eth0
 ip authentication key-chain eigrp 1 eigrp
 ip authentication mode eigrp 1 md5

key chain eigrp
 key 1
  key-string secure_eigrp

router eigrp 1
 network 10.0.136.0/22
 network 192.168.2.0/24   #dummy interface just for route exchange

# sh ip eigrp neighbors

H   Address           Interface            Hold   Uptime   SRTT   RTO   Q     Seq 
                                                       (sec)                   (ms)           Cnt    Num  
0   10.0.136.125      eth0                 14      0            0          2        0      2

Router without authentication:

router eigrp 1
 network 10.0.136.0/22

# sh ip eigrp neighbors

H   Address           Interface            Hold   Uptime   SRTT   RTO   Q     Seq 
                                                        (sec)                  (ms)           Cnt    Num

<empty>

# sh ip route

E>* 192.168.2.0/24 [90/30720] via 10.0.136.87, eth0, 00:04:45

Thanks for any info or ideas about this.

Regards,

Michal