[c-nsp] MD5 BGP in 2621

[Łukasz Bromirski]

Mario Antonio wrote:

> I need to implement MD5 authentication for  BGP sessions with our
 > upstream provider. I am not sure what the performance implications
 > would be, if any.

For one session? Not noticeable. I've got route-server on 2651XM with
tens of sessions and there's no difference in load when we've added
MD5 for each peer.

But, YMMV, according to traffic passing through the router, features
configured etc.

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