Configure BGP MD5 Password: Switch Configuration

The following provides a sample XCO MD5 password configuration and the corresponding switch configuration on one of the fabric devices after the fabric is configured.

  1. Run the efa fabric setting update command.
    efa fabric setting update --name fabric1 --md5-password-enable yes
    Please supply a password for BGP MD5 authentication on fabric links:
    efa fabric configure --name fabric1
  2. Complete the following configuration on SLX device:
    router bgp
      local-as 65000
      capability as4-enable
      fast-external-fallover
      neighbor spine-group peer-group
      neighbor spine-group remote-as 64512
      neighbor spine-group description To Spine
      neighbor spine-group password $9$GiXG/W7938rCj4lzgf14NQ==
      neighbor 10.10.10.2 peer-group spine-group
      neighbor 10.20.20.2 remote-as 65000
      neighbor 10.20.20.2 next-hop-self
      neighbor 10.20.20.2 password $9$GiXG/W7938rCj4lzgf14NQ==
      address-family ipv4 unicast
      network 172.31.254.2/32
      maximum-paths 8
      graceful-restart
     !
     address-family ipv6 unicast
     !
     address-family l2vpn evpn
      graceful-restart
      neighbor spine-group encapsulation vxlan
      neighbor spine-group next-hop-unchanged
      neighbor spine-group enable-peer-as-check
      neighbor spine-group activate
     !
    !