authentication of EIGRP neighbors

[editora_redes]

I want to know how much delay I would get if I configure md5 authentication in my eigrp neighbors; I guess it is not much, but I 'd like to have the info, if somebody knows I'll apreciate it

thanks

[mheusinger · Accepted solution]

Hello,

there will be no noticeable delay with EIGRP authentication. It will be a MD5 hash in the EIGRP packets and the time it costs is the processing time for generating the hash. This is in the order of microseconds and finally neglegible.

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Regards, Martin