From: Ademola Osindero (osindero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Oct 22 2001 - 06:51:56 GMT-3
Check the white spaces. I have had a similar issue before but simply
cleared the key and typed it in afresh and it started working.
At 02:11 AM 10/22/2001 -0400, Jason Gardiner wrote:
>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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