On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 09:56:01AM +0100, Elmar K. Bins wrote: > Hey Radu, > > rafeurd...@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?
Hi In the rest of BIRD, we use 'authentication' option to specify a method of authentication, while the 'password' / 'key' options to set specific keys. In BGP, we used just 'password' option for MD5 auth, but now we also have TCP-AO auth, which use 'keys' block with 'key' statements for specific keys. It is silly to distinguish auth method based on 'password' or 'key' options, especially when in the rest of BIRD these keywords are treated as synonyms, therefore we itroduced the 'authentication' option to BGP to have explicit and consistent behavior, but we also keep (for now) the old behavior of just setting the 'password', but it is encouraged to use the explicit option, as this may change in the future. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santi...@crfreenet.org) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
