[24374] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet failures over the next 3 years
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Jun 22 19:15:55 1999
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 19:12:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Tim Wolfe <tim@clipper.net>
Cc: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9906221539240.10520-100000@mailhost.clipper.net>
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> > - Critical Internet control software and systems
>
> I am not a router vendor, but it seems that adding some sort of auth key to
> BGP (similar to the auth system of OSPF) wouldn't be all that difficult.
> You could specify a key for each peer.
>
FYI:
mae-public(config-router)#neigh 192.41.177.1 password ?
<0-7> Encryption type (0 to disable encryption, 7 for proprietary)
LINE The password
I am not sure how many people use it though.
Deepak Jain
AiNET