Cisco IOS – Configuring Switch to Switch MACSEC
Nov17

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...

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Cisco ISE NFR Appliance Setup
Nov17

Cisco ISE NFR Appliance Setup

KB ID 0001066 Problem The Cisco ISE NFR appliance is for demos and test bench use, I’m currently building a test lab for ISE so I spun a copy up. I looked at the associated ReadMe.pdf for instructions on the basic setup, and found a hyper-link to the instructions, that didn’t work! bah. Solution The appliance comes as an OVA file for importation into vSphere/ESX, I’m assuming you have already imported the appliance....

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