Re: OSPF Virtual Link Authentication

From: Jason Gardiner (gardiner@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Oct 22 2001 - 03:11:44 GMT-3


   
White spaces at the end of passwords are killers. Are you sure the
password match exactly?

Thanks,

Jason Gardiner
Supervisor, Engineering Services
Sprint <Insert Division Name>

"You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and
still come out completely dry. Most people do."

- Norton Juster

On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, John Neiberger wrote:

> I was working on Fatkid 401 OSPF lab tonight and I could never get the
> virtual link authentication to work correctly. No matter what I did, I
> would get errors stating I had a mismatched authentication key. Well, the
> key was "cisco" so that's not too hard to type in correctly. Still, I
> played with the configs on the two relevant routers and I rebooted them
> several times, all to no avail.
>
> I even changed the authentication type to md5 and got the same message.
> Very weird. I thought at one point this was an IOS issue because one router
> was running 11.2(7) and the other 11.2(25a). I upgraded the first one to
> 11.2(25a) and I still see the same error.
>
> I peeked at the solution and saw that I had it configured exactly how they
> suggested. Then I checked CCO and saw that they suggest the same
> configuration.
>
> Do any of you have any tips for configuring virtual link authentication?
> This seems to be a pretty simple config and I don't see what I'm missing.
>
> Thanks,
> John
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