On 18 December 2013 15:48, Philip Lavine <source_route@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dec 18 07:46:33: %BGP-3-NOTIFICATION: received from neighbor <REMOTE PEER> active 2/5 (authentication failure) 0 bytes Dec 18 15:46:33.615: BGP: ses global <REMOTE PEER> (0x7FB1CD209CF0:0) act Receive NOTIFICATION 2/5 (authentication failure) 0 bytes
Although I have seem this on the message boards I am little confused in
that the ISP is telling me that there is no authentication enabled on the Juniper and I do not have authentication enabled on the ASR. So what is going on here?
That's an error during the Open phase, so it can't be related to any MD5 authentication configuration - which is absent, as you say so yourself. Make sure you're trying to initiate the BGP session from the right IP address (eventually needing to use "neighbor X update-source <interface>") and that their configuration matches your address correctly (i.e., they have the right address on your side, without any typos on their configuration). It probably wouldn't hurt to confirm they have your peering session configured as "type external". HTH.