RE: OSPF Virtual Link Authentication

From: Sandro Ciffali (sandyccie@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Oct 22 2001 - 09:26:19 GMT-3


   
The only issue i had with authentication has always
been the space after the key, we are so used to typing
? after every command that we forget it creates a
space after every word. This is the only problem i
have faced so far.

Sandro
--- Khalid Nafie <knafie@ncr.com.kw> wrote:
> Actually I am intereseted to listen to any comments
> on this topic cos it
> happend to me and i removed the ospf configuration
> and start it from the
> scratch then restarted the routers then it worked, i
> was thinking that iam
> typing space after the password but it seems like i
> am not the only one
> suffering from this problem.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Neiberger [mailto:neiby@excite.com]
> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 9:54 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: OSPF Virtual Link Authentication
>
>
> 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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