neighbor password

Description

Enables message digest5 (MD5) authentication on a TCP connection between two BGP neighbors. When the password is applied to peer-group, all the neighbors that are part of peer-group inherit the value configured.

The neighbor connection must be reset using clear ip bgp <NEIGHBOR-IP-ADDRESS> to allow this configuration to take effect.

The no form of this command disables this function.

Command context

config-router

Parameters

<IP-ADDRESS>

Specifies an IP address.

<PEER-GROUP-NAME>

Specifies a Peer-Group.

{ciphertext | plaintext}

Specifies configuring the password as either a ciphertext key or plaintext key.

<PASSWORD-STRING>

Specifies the password string.

Authority

Administrators

Examples

switch(config-router)# neighbor 1.1.1.1 password plaintext hpe_routing
switch(config-router)# no neighbor 1.1.1.1 password

switch(config-router)# neighbor pg password plaintext bgp_hpe_routing
switch(config-router)# no neighbor pg password