On Jan 10, 2012, at 12:01 AM, Claudio Jeker wrote:

> Since it is possible to add MD5 for neighbors on config reload and the
> listening sockets are normaly not closed and reopened on config reload it
> was the easiest to set the MD5 option on all listening sockets no matter
> what (especially since at that time OpenBSD was the only BSD doing TCP MD5
> and the always enable was there from the beginning (actually the MD5SUM
> support was done for/with OpenBGPD).

I see, so then the TCP stack should only set and check MD5 signatures provided 
there's a matching CPD entry. Otherwise, using a random key doesn't make sense 
at all. Right? ;)






Borja.

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