From: John Elias (jelias_@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Oct 22 2001 - 09:28:54 GMT-3
John,
Make sure when you typed in the authentication key that you did not put
any space before or after the key. Like ' cisco' or 'cisco '. It must be
exact, 'cisco'
John E.
CCIE #8150
>From: John Neiberger <neiby@excite.com>
>Reply-To: John Neiberger <neiby@excite.com>
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: OSPF Virtual Link Authentication
>Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 21:53:57 -0700 (PDT)
>
>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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