From: Daniel Cisco Group Study (danielcgs@imc.net.au)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 17:56:57 GMT-3
I came across something very interesting today - The default password for HSRP authentication is "cisco". That means that if you configure "standby auth cisco" on one router, you won't have to set up authentication on the other router(s). Strange but true..... This would imply (to me) that HSRP **always** uses authentication with a password of "cisco". Any comments? I thought I would share this.....
Onto my question:
I've been studying the DOCO for 12.1, and came across the following:
Under "usage guidelines" for the "standby authentication" command:
"The authentication string has a lower priority than the priority set with the standby priority command. A router with a higher HSRP priority will ignore the authentication string"
Does anyone know what this means? I initially interpreted that the "active" router would not authenticate the hello packets from other routers. I set this up in the lab and could not see this happening...
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Daniel
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