Technical Tip: How to Recover BGP Password

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Description

This article describes how to recover the BGP password.

Scope

FortiGate.

Solution

Copy and paste the encrypted password from the CLI to Notepad.

Create an SSID on FortiGate.

Edit the SSID in CLI.

Change the passphrase of the SSID to the BGP password copied from Step 1.

config wireless-controller vap

edit "TEST"

set passphrase ENC <----- Encrypted BGP Password copied from Step 1.
next

end

From FortiGate GUI, go to WiFi Controller -> SSID -> Edit SSID. On the 'Passphrase' parameter, select the 'eye' icon to reveal the password. This is the BGP password.

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Technical Tip: How to Recover BGP Password

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