Error connecting to Juniper MX480

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I'm trying to establish a Netconf session with a Juniper MX480 router. I'm 
getting errors during initial negotiation.

I have followed these steps:

1. Open client example with:

$ netconf-client 


2. Establish verbosity level with:

netconf> verbose
Verbose level set to VERBOSE


3. Connect and authenticate to the Juniper MX480 router:

netconf> connect --login <user> <ip_address> 
libnetconf VERBOSE: Keyboard-interactive authentication
libnetconf ERROR: Authentication failed (Authentication failed 
(keyboard-interactive))
libnetconf VERBOSE: Password authentication (host <ip_address>, user <user>)
<user>@<ip_address> password: 


4. Getting the following errors:

libnetconf ERROR: No base capability found in the capabilities intersection.
libnetconf ERROR: Unsupported NETCONF protocol version (-1)
libnetconf ERROR: Malformed message received, closing the session 22273.
connect: connecting to the <ip_address> failed.
netconf> 


I don't know how to get logging of my session to see actual Netconf messages, 
but I was using netopeer and these was my issue:
http://code.google.com/p/netopeer/issues/detail?id=8&can=1

Original issue reported on code.google.com by juliocar...@i2cat.net on 28 Jun 2013 at 11:09

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To get more detailed log, run configure script with --enable-debug option:

./configure --enable-debug --with-examples

and in the netconf-client's shell, use debug command:

netconf> debug


I checked the log you posted to the netopeer project. You were right, problem 
is in the namespace of the juniper's <hello> message, which is completely 
missing. Juniper breaks RFC 6241 (appendix B) - libnetconf checks all messages 
(hello, rpc, rpc-reply, notification) to be in the 
urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0 namespace as NETCONF protocol 
specification defines.

Original comment by rkre...@cesnet.cz on 28 Jun 2013 at 2:17

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