Introduction
Routing Information Protocol version 2 includes authentication types
simple
,
none
and
MD5
(MD5 message-
digest algorithm.)
Both
simple
and
none
authentication types are vulnerable to passive attacks currently widespread in the
Internet. Clear text passwords, currently specified for use with Routing Internet Protocol version 2 (RIPv2), are no
longer considered sufficient to provide security. Keyed MD5 is the standard authentication algorithm for RIPv2. It
provides a greatly enhanced probability that a system being attacked will detect and ignore hostile messages.
Figure 33: MD5 use case diagram
Configuration commands
Configure MD5 authentication for RIPv2 and MD5 keychain for RIPv2 interfaces by using the following
commands.
Syntax
[no] ip rip authentication-type none|text|md5
Enable, disable or configure RIP on the VLAN interface.
When
no
is specified, the command disables RIP on the interface.
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