Key chains on the avaya multiservice switch – Avaya P580 User Manual
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Avaya P550R, P580, P880, and P882 Multiservice Switch User Guide,v5.3.1
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Configuring the Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
Key Chains on
the Avaya
Multiservice
Switch
The Avaya Multiservice switch supports the creation of a single Key
Chain with a single Key. Hence, Key and Key Chain are
interchangeable terms. The Key has a setting for a start time and
duration. Regardless of duration, the Key’s start time must be set,
even if the duration is set to infinity.
If the duration is less than 4294967295 seconds, the Key will expire.
Ironically, this number is approximately 136 years. A more realistic
number would be 18000 seconds (5 Hours). For this time interval,
the RIP V2 interface would exchange routes with other RIP V2
routers in the same subnet. Once expired, the RIP V2 interface
would no longer accept RIP packets from RIP V2 routers on that
subnet.
If the Key’s duration is 4294967295 (alternately -1), the key never
expires. Again, if you use this value, you must still specify a Key
Accept Time. Failure to do so will result in the Avaya switch not
creating the Key.