Command Line Reference Guide

password
Enter a text string up to 80 characters long. The first
character of the password must be a letter.
You cannot use spaces in the password.
Defaults Not configured.
Command
Modes
ROUTER BGP
Command
History
Version 9.2(0.0) Introduced on the MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module.
Usage
Information
Configure the same password on both BGP peers or a connection does not occur.
When you configure MD5 authentication between two BGP peers, each segment
of the TCP connection between them is verified and the MD5 digest is checked on
every segment sent on the TCP connection.
Configuring a password for a neighbor causes an existing session to be torn down
and a new one established.
If you specify a BGP peer group by using the peer-group-name parameter, all the
members of the peer group inherit the characteristic configured with this
command.
If you configure a password on one neighbor, but you have not configured a
password for the neighboring router, the following message appears on the
console while the routers attempt to establish a BGP session between them:
%RPM0-P:RP1 %KERN-6-INT: No BGP MD5 from [peer's IP address]
:179 to [local router's IP address]:65524
Also, if you configure different passwords on the two routers, the following
message appears on the console:
%RPM0-P:RP1 %KERN-6-INT: BGP MD5 password mismatch from
[peer's IP address] : 11502 to [local router's IP address] :179
neighbor peer-group (assigning peers)
Allows you to assign one peer to an existing peer group.
Syntax
neighbor ip-address peer-group peer-group-name
To delete a peer from a peer group, use the no neighbor ip-address peer-
group peer-group-name command.
Parameters
ip-address Enter the IP address of the router to be included in the peer
group.
Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4)
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