Cisco IOS – Configuring Switch to Switch MACSEC
KB ID 0001000 Problem My colleague had to set this up on the test bench today, and it looked infinitely more interesting that what I was doing, so I grabbed my console cable, and offered to ‘help’. This was done on two Cisco Catalyst 3560-X switches, each with a 10G Service Module (C3KX-SM-10G), and 1Gb SFP modules (Note: Not 10Gb ones, this will become important later). Solution 1. First hurdle was, when we tried to add...
Cisco ISE – Basic 802.1x With Windows Part Two – Configuring 802.1x Policies
KB ID 0001075 D Problem Back in Part One, we joined Cisco ISE to Active Directory, now we we will take the built in ISE policies and change them. This will allow our clients to authenticate, with the correct protocols. Solution 1. By default ISE will use pretty much any available protocol, we are going to use PEAP, although I’m also going to allow EAP-TLS (it’s more secure and if I start rolling out certificates I’ve...
Cisco ISE – Basic 802.1x With WindowsPart Three – Adding Network Devices (Authenticators)
KB ID 0001077 Problem Back in Part Two we configured the specific 802.1x policies in Cisco ISE. Remember with 802.1x it is a three tier system there is a supplicant, (a machine that wants to authenticate), the Authenticator, (the device the supplicant connect to, in our case a switch), and finally an Authentication server (Cisco ISE). Below I will add our switch into ISE, as a RADIUS device and create some groups, and locations for...