Re: BGP authentication but password not given !!

From: Nick Matthews (matthn@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Jan 10 2009 - 17:10:51 ARST


If you could get the password from the debugs, the password wouldn't be very
valuable, would it?

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:52 PM, James MacDonald <j4m3sm63@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> All, i'm using the same workbook and on the last bullet for that task it
> states: "R2 should authenticate the BGP peering session with BB2 using an
> MD5 hash password of CISCO."
>
> Maybe your copy is older and has an error ... i'm not sure ... but
> definitely they expect CISCO to be the password according to my copy.
>
> ------------------------------
> Jim MacDonald
> j4m3sm63@yahoo.ca
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Scott Morris <smorris@internetworkexpert.com>
> To: mihai.grigore@onlinehome.de; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:39:34 PM
> Subject: RE: BGP authentication but password not given !!
>
> Always check the beginning of your lab (first page) for the rules of
> engagement. Things like "All passwords will be CISCO unless otherwise
> mentioned" are incredibly important!
>
> HTH,
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> mihai.grigore@onlinehome.de
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 11:32 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: BGP authentication but password not given !!
>
> Respected fellow Experts,
>
> I have a task asking about a BGP peering to a backbone router (IE WB vol2
> Lab16, Task 4.1). The beauty of this task is that the backbone router is
> using
> MD5 authentication, but the task does not mention the password. This is
> part
> of
> the candidate hardening procedure.... :-)
>
> On my router, I have enabled debugging for TCP transactions and this is
> what
> I
> can see:
>
> Lab16_R2#deb ip tcp tra
>
> *Jan 10 12:33:14.561: TCB85961AE8 setting property TCP_MD5KEY (5) 0 <<< I
> am
> using no MD5
> (output ommited)
>
> *Jan 10 12:33:24.300: MD5 received, but NOT expected from 192.10.1.254:179
> to
> 192.10.1.2:31253
>
> So, the BB2 router is sending me MD5 key and I cannot know what this is
> from
> the debug above. By the way, is there any way how to see the password?
>
> For the Lab, what to do in such a situation? Ask the proctor what the
> password
> would be?
>
> TIA,
> Mihai
>
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