Command Reference Guide

270 ● rip authentication-mode 3Com Router 5000 Family and Router 6000 Family
Command Reference
Description RIP-1 does not support authentication. There are two RIP authentication modes:
simple text authentication and MD5 cipher text authentication. When MD5 cipher
text authentication mode is used, there are two types of packet formats. One of them
is described in RFC 1723, which was brought forward earlier. The other format is the
one described specially in RFC 2082. The router supports both of the packet formats
and the user can select either of them on demands.
Whether you configure plain text password or cipher text password, the password
must be entered in plain text for authentication.
Related Command rip version