Subject: [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5880 (6818)

From: RFC Errata System <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 04:01:18 -0800 (PST)

The following errata report has been submitted for RFC5880,
"Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)".

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You may review the report below and at:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid6818

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Type: Technical
Reported by: Nikolai Malykh <[email-masked]>

Section: 6.7.2

Original Text
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      If the Auth Len field is not equal to the length of the password
      selected by the key ID, plus three, the packet MUST be discarded.

Corrected Text
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      If the Auth Len field is not match to the length of the password
      selected by the key ID, plus three, the packet MUST be discarded.

Notes
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The value of the Auth Len field is the length of the password plus 3.

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RFC5880 (draft-ietf-bfd-base-11)
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Title               : Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
Publication Date    : June 2010
Author(s)           : D. Katz, D. Ward
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
Area                : Routing
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG