BGP and passwords

Elmar K. Bins elmi at noir.de
Wed Aug 27 10:56:01 CEST 2025


Hey Radu,

rafeurdean at franceix.net (Radu-Adrian Feurdean) wrote:

> On Linux (but that shouldn't change the option's syntax) we use:
>
>     authentication md5; password "<REDACTED>";

That works, thanks! Could simply not find that in the docs.

I have a question for the devs - if it's the default, and people want to use
the default, why do you need to put out warnings? Or can I switch that warning
stuff off?

Elmar.



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