BGP MD5 with Juniper Router

[Martin Kraus]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 11:38:25AM +0300, Rashed Alwarrag wrote:
> Dear birds Experts
> 
> we have a BGP peer between Bird server and Juniper devices , we mentioned
> that in our Juniper router wrong MD5 password log appear as below
> 
> kernel: %KERN-4: tcp_auth_ok: Packet from 192.168.0.10:179 wrong MD5 digest
> 
> when we capture the BGP update we mentioned that the bird server is
> sending to the router the update with an unexpected MD5 key and The
> router ignore this update then again the bird server retransmit the same
> update with correct MD5
> 
> is this issue is expected in bird server or is there any known bug/PR for
> this issue in Bird

Hi. Can you confirm your password is including special characters or is
extensively long? I ran into the same problem when peering between juniper and
cisco. I actually got somebody from juniper looking into this. could you send
me the password and junos version you're using?

thanks
Martin