ERX 1400 BGP neighbor password hash changing in every view

[Gadde]

Hi,

This is regarding BGP password hash in a Juniper ERX 1400 Switch. Each time I give show config, the password hash is changing. I am new to this ERX series, can anyone pls. explain how to get the original password ? I tried some Googling, found 'show secrets' command, but whatever output it is giving, its already there in show config , under service-password encryption,  

enable secret level 10 5 .....

But my doubt is in bgp part of the config,

neighbor x.x.x.x password 8 (secret data)  is present in config file. every time I give a show config , its displaying a different data in secret data section.

This is not the case with Juniper M-Series routers, where the hash remains same always.  Can anyone pls. explain this. I need to move config from Juniper ERX to juniper M120.

Thanks in advance.

[Ulf]

Hi,

in 2003 I've been told the following:

- if password has been configured as plain-text it's shown differently each time by show conf as the system-(uptime-)time is included in the generation of the output to disguise

- if password has been configured encrypted it should stay the same

Either way it can't (easily) be reverted, so you need to talk to somebody to give you the clear-text password so that you can put that in your M120 config.

Best Regards

Ulf

[masoodnt10]

I have written a BLOG " how to recover bgp password on Juniper Routers"

Here is the URL:

http://weblogs.com.pk/jahil/archive/2008/08/27/recover-bgp-password-juniper-junos.aspx

HTH