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Re: MD5 in BGP4

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Jul 12 13:16:54 2000

From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:14:22 -0700
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> I understand that MD5 is quite commonly used in IGP such as OSPF but not
> in BGP4. Am I correct?

no.  sensible bgp peers use md5 sig in bgp4. see rfc 2385

randy


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