Enabling Rip Authentication; Configuring Interpacket Delay - Motorola BSR 2000 Configuration And Management Manual

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Enabling RIP Authentication

RIPv1 does not support authentication. If you send and receive RIPv2 packets, you
can enable RIP authentication on a particular interface. The BSR supports plain-text
password authentication and MD5-encrypted password authentication on a RIP
interface.
Use one of the following options to enable RIP authentication:

Configuring Interpacket Delay

By default, the software adds no delay between packets in a multiple-packet RIP
update being sent. If you have a high-end router sending to a low-speed router, you
might want to add such interpacket delay to RIP updates, in the range of 8 to 50
milliseconds. To do so, use the output-delay command in Router RIP Configuration
mode, as shown in the following example:
MOT (config-rip)#output-delay <8-50>
where:
Use the no output-delay command to return to the default.
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Use the ip rip authentication key command in Interface Configuration mode to
enable plain text password authentication:
MOT(config-if)# ip rip authentication key <password>
where:
password specifies the 16 character password authentication key.
Use the ip rip message-digest-key md5 command in Interface Configuration
mode to enable encrypted Message Digest Five (MD5) password authentication:
MOT(config-if)# ip rip message-digest-key <1-255> md5 <password>
where:
1-255 specifies the a key number.
password specifies the MD5-encrypted 16 character password.
8-50 is the delay, in milliseconds, between packets in a multiple-packet RIP
update; the default is no delay.
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