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NETGEAR M4500 Series Switches CLI Command Reference Manual 791
Default 1
Mode Router BGP Config Mode
IPv4 VRF Address Family
6.10.2.28. neighbor password
This command is used to enable Message Digest 5 (MD5) authentication on a TCP connection between two BGP
peers and configures an authentication key. MD5 must either be enabled or disabled on both peers. The same
password must be configured on both peers.
To disable this function, use the no form of this command.
Format neighbor {<ipv4-address> | <ipv6-address> [interface {<slot/port> | vlan {1-4093}}] | autodetect
interface <slot/port>} password [<string> encrypted]
no neighbor {<ipv4-address> | <ipv6-address> [interface {<slot/port> | vlan {1-4093}}] | autodetect
interface <slot/port>} password
Default None
Mode Router BGP Config Mode
IPv4 VRF Address Family
6.10.2.29. neighbor connect-retry-interval
This command is used to configure the initial connection retry time for a specific neighbor. If a neighbor does not
response to an initial TCP connection attempt, BGP retries three times. The first retry is after the retry interval
configured with neighbor connect-retry-interval. Each subsequence retry doubles the previous retry interval. So by
hop-count
The maximum hop-count allowed to reach the neighbor. The allowed range is
from 1 to 255.
Fields
Definition
ipv4-address
IPv4 address of the neighboring router.
ipv6-address
IPv6 address of the neighboring router. Not supported in the IPv4 VRF address
family mode.
interface
If the neighbor’s IPv6 address is a link local address, the local interface must be
specified as well. Not supported in the IPv4 VRF address family mode.
autodetect interface
The routing interface on which the neighbor’s IPv6 link local address is defined
is auto-detected.
password
Use this option directly to set plain-text passwords with a maximum length of
25 characters.
Use this option with the ‘<string> encrypted’ parameter to set passwords in
encrypted form with a length of 128 hexadecimal digits.