Command Reference Guide

3Com Router 5000 Family and Router 6000 Family rip authentication-mode ● 269
Command Reference
rip authentication-mode
Purpose Use the rip authentication-mode command to configure RIP-2 authentication
mode and corresponding parameters.
Use the undo rip authentication-mode command to cancel the RIP-2
authentication.
Syntax rip authentication-mode { { simple password } | { md5 { rfc2082
key-string key-id | rfc2453 key-string } } }
undo rip authentication-mode
Parameters simple
Simple text authentication mode.
password
Simple text authentication key, in character string
format with 1 to 16 characters in simple text mode or
24 characters in cipher text mode.
md5
MD5 cipher text authentication mode.
rfc2082
Specifies the MD5 cipher text authentication packet to
use a nonstandard packet format described in
RFC2082.
3Com
Specifies the MD5 cipher text authentication packet to
use the generic packet format (RFC2453 standard
format).
key-string
MD5 cipher-text authentication key. When input in
simple text, it is a string of 1 to 16 characters, for
example, 1234567. When input in cipher text, it is a
string of 24 characters, for example,
(TT8F]Y\5SQ=^Q‘MAF4<1!!.
key-id
MD5 cipher text authentication identifier, ranging from
1 to 255.
Example Specify Interface serial1/0/0 to use the simple text authentication with the key as aaa.
[3Com ] interface serial1/0/0
[3Com -Serial1/0/0] rip version 2
[3Com -Serial1/0/0] rip authentication-mode simple aaa
View This command can be used in the following views:
■ Interface view