[42612] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: bgp md5 auth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Sep 18 13:27:54 2001
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: John Kristoff <jtk@depaul.edu>
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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:53:43 -0700
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> Two refused. One simply said they don't support. The other with
> reasoning that it was dumb and unnecessary with point-to-point links
> (ATM PVCs).
a bit light on the clue, eh?
> Two organization said they don't support TCP MD5 authentication, but
> they'll do BGP password. Now when I ask I put a 'aka BGP password' in
> parentheses after I use the words 'TCP MD5 authentication'.
hey, they may never have seen more than one vendor in their lives, but at
least they're trying.
> The most common means of exchanging a password was over the phone.
> Second most common way was via PGP encrypted email. One organization
> sent a password in plain text email.
i'll settle
randy
