[c-nsp] MD5 BGP in 2621

[Jon Lewis]

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, [ISO-8859-2] Łukasz Bromirski wrote:

> 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.

Other thing to worry about is whether or not it works.  I've crashed a
7206 running 12.1(5)T19 multiple times by trying to turn up a BGP session
with MD5.

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