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How do you enable an IP interface because you need a unique address for your interfaces? When I say not part of the default configuration I mean the default configuration doesn't even have a space for "put key here." On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Farhan Memon wrote: > How can u enable auth by default, since you would have to stick in a key > somehow, and if that was default then it could be exploited. > > rgrds > > Faz > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > batz > Sent: 04 June 2002 15:20 > To: Sean Donelan > Cc: Barbara Fraser; [email protected] > Subject: Re: route authentication > > > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Sean Donelan wrote: > > :Some ISPs are practically religious about using them, usually the result > :of a single person at the ISP pushing it. But for the most part it hasn't > :really taken hold in the professional security consulting field. > > I would suggest that it is also ISP's who do not hire security consultants. > Consulting fees tend to come from departmental budgets, and almost > every network engineer I have ever met fancies themselves a security > expert. There isn't alot of incentive for them to get a third party > opinion, because of a lack of faith in the clue of most consultants, and > a general aversion to having anyone touch the delicate house of cards > many network engineers have constructed. > > Maybe Cisco could add this as a default requirement of the configuration > that had to be explicitly disabled? In fact, it would be nice if all > protocol configurations had to have their authentication manually > disabled. > > > > -- > batz > > > >
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