Federation links use the ANONYMOUS mechanism only. If ANONYMOUS is disabled for the remote broker, federated link establishment will fail. The qpid-route utility provides a way for the user to supply PLAIN credentials. These supplied credentials must be used in inter-broker connection setup.
qpidc-0.2.667603-1.el5, qpidc-perftest-0.2.667603-1.el5, qpidd-0.2.667603-1.el5, and rhm-0.2.2153-1.el5 have been pushed to the staging repo for testing