[j-nsp] ES PIC required for BGP-over-IPSEC?

harry harry at juniper.net
Fri Apr 16 14:34:03 EDT 2004


The ES PIC is not needed to secure RE based BGP sessions. This is done at
the protocols bgp hierarchy:


[edit protocols bgp]
lab at Sydney# set ipsec-sa ?  
Possible completions:
  <ipsec-sa>           IPSec SA name
[edit protocols bgp]


HTHs



> -----Original Message-----
> From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
> [mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of 
> Daniel Roesen
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 11:22 AM
> To: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [j-nsp] ES PIC required for BGP-over-IPSEC?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> being motivated by some current discussions about securing 
> BGP, I decided to play around with BGP-over-IPSEC. :->
> 
> can someone confirm wether an ES PIC is required to secure 
> BGP sessions with IPSEC? My memories say "no", but when 
> trying to actually do this, I'm getting errors:
> 
> security {
>     ipsec {
>         security-association ibgp {
>             manual {
>                 direction bidirectional {
>                     protocol bundle;
>                     spi 1234;
>                     auxiliary-spi 1234;
>                     authentication {
>                         algorithm hmac-sha1-96;
>                         key ascii-text ...;
>                     }
>                     encryption {
>                         algorithm 3des-cbc;
>                         key ascii-text ...;
>                     }
>                 }
>             }
>         }
>     }
> }
> 
> /kernel: ipsec_find_sa_in_so(1632): Couldn't dereference the 
> sa name = ibgp
> rpd[4427]: task_connect: task BGP_1234.192.168.0.5+179 addr 
> 192.168.0.5+179: Connection refused
> rpd[4427]: bgp_connect_start: connect 192.168.0.5 (Internal 
> AS 1234): Connection refused
> 
> Any clues? Docs are a little terse and don't give a practical 
> example of how a typical manual SA looks like to secure BGP.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel
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