When I had that problem, it was because the max-prefixes on the Juniper router was being triggered. If I remember correctly. It's a strange return message for the wrong issue.
>________________________________ > From: Philip Lavine <source_ro...@yahoo.com> >To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org> >Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 7:48 AM >Subject: BGP from Juniper to Cisco ASR > > >Dec 18 07:46:33: %BGP-3-NOTIFICATION: received from neighbor <REMOTE PEER> >active 2/5 (authentication failure) 0 bytes >Dec 18 15:46:33.615: BGP: ses global <REMOTE PEER> (0x7FB1CD209CF0:0) act >Receive NOTIFICATION 2/5 (authentication failure) 0 bytes > >Although I have seem this on the message boards I am little confused in that >the ISP is telling me that there is no authentication enabled on the Juniper >and I do not have authentication enabled on the ASR. So what is going on here? > > > >