Information
Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) provides the signaling required for setting up and tearing down pseudowires (virtual circuits used to transport layer 2 frames) across an MPLS IP core network. Using a targeted LDP session, each PE router advertises a virtual circuit label mapping that is used as part of the label stack imposed on the frames by the ingress PE router during packet forwarding. Authentication provides protection against spoofed TCP segments that can be introduced into the LDP sessions.
Solution
Implement authentication for all targeted LDP sessions using a FIPS-approved message authentication code algorithm.
set protocols ldp interface <interface 1 name>.<logical unit>
set protocols ldp interface <interface 2 name>.<logical unit>
set protocols ldp session <Session destination address> authentication-algorithm <aes-128-cmac-96|hmac-sha-1-96>
set protocols ldp session <Session destination address> authentication-key-chain <name>