[c-nsp] Q. Is anyone deploying TCP Authentication Option (TCP-AO) on their BGP peering Sessions?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 08:48:44AM +0800, Barry Greene via cisco-nsp wrote:
> Q. Is anyone deploying TCP Authentication Option (TCP-AO) on their BGP peering Sessions?

Not me.  Not sure if my vendors do support it (IOS XR and Arista EOS),
but I do not see significant benefit.

TBH, most of our (non-multihop) eBGP sessions do not even deploy MD5, as
the whole password management thing adds another source of operational
friction.

gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
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