[RADIATOR] A few questions regarding MacSec

Tuure Vartiainen vartiait at open.com.au
Sun Apr 17 03:47:01 CDT 2016


Hi,

> On 17 Apr 2016, at 10:21, Nadav Hod <nadav.hod at comm-it.co.il> wrote:
> 
> Cisco use EAP-Fast for NDAC. The secure seeding device closest to the authentication server (this is configurable) authenticates the neighboring switches, which in turn authenticate their neighboring switches, and so on. ...
> 
> Is there any chance that Radiator supports uplink Macsec within a Cisco infrastructure? I'm aware that they tailored their solution to Cisco ISE and therefore this may not be a solution based on standards, but it would be interesting to know whether this can be supported without ISE.
> 

EAP-FAST part works with Radiator, but in Cisco TrustSec (CTS) switches derive 
their shared secret for a RADIUS server from a PAC file and that’s an undocumented 
Cisco proprietary method.

(ref: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/trustsec/configuration/guide/trustsec/arch_over.html)


BR
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