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Hi There,
I’ve just woken up so by brains not at full steam just yet but……
The second command you note I believe is how the router *STORES *the password in the config. If you configure the standard
neighbour x.x.x.x password cisco
the password will be stored in the config unencrypted. If you do a show running you’ll see
neighbour x.x.x.x password 0 cisco
Now if you configure
service password-encrytion
in global config you will see your password has been encrypted and has a 7 in front on the password to state it’s encrypted. The reason for this is could be, if you have a backup config and you want to apply the config to say another router as the first one has died, you don’t need to know the encrypted password. You can just do the command
neighbour x.x.x.x password 7 110A…ect
The router will recognise by the 7 that an encrypted password will follow.
On 1/19/08, ladeegeek@gmail.com wrote: > > hey guys i need a little help - i’m typ’n one handed so bear with the > short hand cryptic typ’n - > > try’n 2 figure out bgp authentication… > > Doc cd for md5: > > neighbor {ip-address | peer-group-name} password string > > IOS in 12.4: > > neighbor {ip address} password Encryption type (0 to disable > encryption, 7 for proprietary) > > > what level of encryption gives me md5? > > thnk-u, > LG > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Subscription information may be found at: > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html