Authentication Methods

ImageLesson 1: Overview of Routing Protocol Authentication

Cisco routers support a couple of different approaches to authenticating route advertisements received from a neighboring router:

Image Plain text authentication

Image Hashing authentication

Both of these approaches require routers to have matching passwords (also referred to as keys); however, Cisco recommends the use of hashing authentication.

Plain text authentication, as the name ...

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