Re: OSPF Virtual Link Authentication

From: John Neiberger (neiby@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Oct 22 2001 - 12:01:43 GMT-3


   
Yep, I'm positive. I've retyped them many, many times and I learned the
hard way a couple of years ago the dangers of white space at the end of
passwords.

Thanks,
John

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 02:11:44 -0400 (EDT), 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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