Configure a BGP Peer or Peer Group Password
Use this procedure to configure a BGP peer or peer group password for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) MD5 authentication between two peers.
Note
You configure BGP peer on a VRF instance the same way you configure the GlobalRouter, except that you must use VRF Router Configuration mode and the prefix ip bgp. The VRF must have an RP Trigger of BGP. Route refresh is not currently supported on non-default VRFs.
Procedure
Example
Assign a BGP peer or peer group password:
Switch(router-bgp)# neighbor password peergroupa password1
Variable Definitions
The following table defines parameters for the neighbor password <nbr_ipaddr|peer-group-name> command.
Variable |
Value |
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password <nbr_ipaddr|peer-group-name> WORD <0–1536> |
Specifies a password for TCP MD5 authentication between two peers. WORD <0–1536> is an alphanumeric string length from 0 to 1536 characters. To disable this option, use no operator with the command. To configure this option to the default value, use default operator with the command. |