Users Guide

peer-group-name Enter the name of a congured peer group.
encryption-type (OPTIONAL) Enter 7 as the encryption type for the password entered. 7 means
that the password is encrypted and hidden.
password
Enter a text string up to 80 characters long. The rst character of the password
must be a letter.
You cannot use spaces in the password.
Defaults Not congured.
Command Modes ROUTER BGP
Command History
This guide is platform-specic. For command information about other platforms, see the relevant Dell
Networking OS Command Line Reference Guide.
Version Description
9.8(0.0P5) Introduced on the S4048-ON.
9.8(0.0P2) Introduced on the S3048-ON.
9.7(0.0) Introduced on the S6000–ON.
9.2(1.0) Introduced on the Z9500.
9.0.2.0 Introduced on the S6000.
8.3.19.0 Introduced on the S4820T.
8.3.11.1 Introduced on the Z9000.
8.3.7.0 Introduced on the S4810.
7.8.1.0 Introduced on the S-Series.
7.7.1.0 Introduced on the C-Series.
Usage Information
This command automatically restarts the neighbor session for the conguration to take eect.
Congure the same password on both BGP peers or a connection does not occur. When you congure MD5
authentication between two BGP peers, each segment of the TCP connection between them is veried and
the MD5 digest is checked on every segment sent on the TCP connection.
Conguring a password for a neighbor causes an existing session to be torn down and a new one
established.
If you specify a BGP peer group by using the peer-group-name parameter, all the members of the peer
group inherit the characteristic congured with this command.
If you congure a password on one neighbor, but you have not congured a password for the neighboring
router, the following message appears on the console while the routers attempt to establish a BGP session
between them:
%RPM0-P:RP1 %KERN-6-INT: No BGP MD5 from [peer's IP address]
:179 to [local router's IP address]:65524
Border Gateway Protocol
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