Re: BCP38 making it work, solving problems

[Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Patrick W Gilmore wrote:

> Have you actually done the work to see how many packets it takes to
> shut down a session with and without MD5 enabled?  (The question is
> rhetorical, since your post shows that you have not.)

Just a bit more sauce for the goose...enabling MD5 on BGP peers under
certain latest in their train IOS versions will immediately crash IOS.

Guess how I know that?

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