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LDP Configuration MPLS Configuration
17.4.5 MD5 Password Protection
Since LDP uses TCP as its transport, you can use the IETF standard MD5 signature option to protect LDP session
connections. Use the
ldp set md5-password
command to set an MD5 password on a per-router, per-interface, or
per-peer basis.
For example, the following command sets the MD5 password ‘p55717’ for LDP sessions with the peer
100.100.100.102:
In the above example, if you omit the
peer
keyword and IP address, the MD5 password is applied to all LDP sessions
on the router.
17.4.6 Using LDP Filters
With MPLS, there is no way to restrict which FECs are or are not bound to labels. You can, however, create and apply
LDP filters that restrict the label bindings that are sent from downstream LSRs to upstream LSRs. You can also create
and apply LDP filters that restrict the label requests that an upstream LSR can send to a downstream LSR.
If an upstream LSR does not have label binding information for a specific FEC, it will route packets based on
information in the IP routing table. However, if there are several paths of equal cost to the same destination, LDP filters
can exclude next-hops from considerations.
On the RS, you can define an LDP filter for:
• outgoing label requests—use the
ldp add export-filter request
command.
• incoming label requests—use the
ldp add import-filter request
command.
• outgoing label bindings—use the
ldp add export-filter mapping
command.
• incoming label bindings—use the
ldp add import-filter mapping
command.
Note A filtered incoming label binding will still appear in the LDP input label database
(displayed with the
ldp show database verbose
command) on the local
router, but will not be considered for LSP establishment. A filtered outgoing label
binding is not advertised to the specified neighbor LSR, although it will still be
advertised to other LDP neighbors and considered by the local router for LSP
establishment.
ldp set md5-password p55717 peer 100.100.100.102