North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: MD5 in BGP4
"HANSEN CHAN" wrote: >I understand that MD5 is quite commonly used in IGP such as OSPF but not >in BGP4. Am I correct? Can someone explain to me why? Shouldn't one be >more concerned the session being hijacked when talking to another >network? i believe this is because bgp will not establish a session unless the other end is directly connected. hence the reason for ebgp-multihop. so unless somebody drops a physical line into your router and configures it, you shouldn't have a problem. at least that's the way i understand it. please correct me if i'm wrong. damon
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