6248 FI Cisco's UCS with Cisco catalyst 2960 connectivity
In our environment, UCS, connects the two fabric as a Cisco Nexus 9 k switch upstream with vPC and it works well. But we need to isolate some virtual servers on the blades of the UCS on an entirely separate DMZ switch which is Cisco catalyst 2960.
(1) so can we connect cables separate physical twinax of FI uplink ports to catalyst 2960 and connectivity to the servers in the DMZ keeping YEW to nexus connectivity as it is?
(2) in this case, as there are 2 switches to nexus core 1 and 2 so we will require 2 cisco catalyst 2960 for disjoint such a network? or otherwise we can connect A FI and FI B to one on his 2 numbers 2960 switch. Gig SFP ports + 10?
(3) also suggest things must be taken in charge, the best guides practice or an illustration in this context.
The assignment is static and cannot be changed.
location 1 - uplink 1
slot 2 - uplink 2...
If a property has no blade, the corresponding uplink is not used and that can not be changed!
This dedication of uplinks of IOM is of course a lot of resources: cables, ports on FI, allowed port,...
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Setup
Cisco Catalyst 2960-S running 15.0.2 - SE8
Under Centos freeRadius 6.4 RADIUS server
Client (supplicant) running Windows 7
When Windows client is connected to the port (port 12 in my setup) with authentication of 802. 1 x active switch, show of Wireshark that catalyst sends ask EAP and the client responds with EAP response. But it made not the request to the Radius server. The RADIUS test utility 'aaa RADIUS testuser password new-code test group' works.
Here is my config running. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
#show running mySwitch-
mySwitch #show running-config
Building configuration...Current configuration: 2094 bytes
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version 12.2
no service button
horodateurs service debug datetime msec
Log service timestamps datetime msec
no password encryption service
!
hostname myswitch
!
boot-start-marker
boot-end-marker
!
activate the password secret 5 $1$ Z1z6$ kqvVYRQdVRZ0h8aDTV5DR0 enable password!
!
!
AAA new-model
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AAA dot1x group group radius aaa accounting dot1x default start-stop radius authentication group!
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AAA - the id of the joint session
1 supply ws-c2960s-24ts-l switch
!
!
!
!
!
control-dot1x system-auth
pvst spanning-tree mode
spanning tree extend id-system
!
!
!
!
internal allocation policy of VLAN no ascendant interface FastEthernet0 no stop ip address!
GigabitEthernet1/0/1 interface
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/2
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/3
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/4
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/5
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/6
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/7
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/8
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/9
!
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/10
!
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/11
!
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/12
switchport mode access
Auto control of the port of authentication
dot1x EAP authenticator
!
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/13
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/14
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/15
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/16
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/17
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/18
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/19
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/20
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/21
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/22
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/23
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/24
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/25
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/26
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/27
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/28
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interface Vlan1
IP 10.1.2.12 255.255.255.0
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IP http server
IP http secure server
activate the IP sla response alerts
recording of debug trap
10.1.2.1 host connection tcp port 514 RADIUS-server host 10.1.2.1 transport auth-port 1812 acct-port 1646 timeout 3 retransmit testing123 key 3.
Line con 0
line vty 0 4
password password
line vty 5 15
password password
!
endinterface GigabitEthernet1/0/16
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/17
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/18
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/19
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interface GigabitEthernet1/0/20Have you run wireshark on the server because the request to switch? If so you make sure that there is a response from the server? For Windows network POLICY Server (I've never tried Centos), you must ensure that the request is related to a policy which then authenticates, or denies access. Usually, it is a matter of such attributes and the seller.
Regarding the configuration, it seems a bit out of the AAA. Try to remove the:
line "aaa dot1x group service radius authentication" and this by using instead:
"aaa dot1x default radius authentication group". After the dot1x word you are supposed to provide a list of the authentication or the default Word if you do not want to use a list.
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Hello
I improved my 2960 with the latest basic version of LAN 12.2 (46) which includes the authentication of domain Multi (MDA) and I tried to configure what is described here:
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RADIUS: Receipt of id 160.2.100.74:1645 1645/64, Access-Accept, len
110
17:02:38: RADIUS: authenticator 7 d AC 50 FE 14 B4 FC DC - 3A A4 E5 3F 1E 76 62
C3
17:02:38: RADIUS: EAP-Message [79] 6
17:02:38: RADIUS: 03 05 00 04
17:02:38: RADIUS: [25] in class 32
17:02:38: RADIUS: 44 05 05 A2 00 00 01 37 00 01 A0 02 64 4A C9 01 1 33 79 52
D8 58 00 00 00 00 00 00 1 b E7 [D7dJ3yRX]
17:02:38: RADIUS: seller, Cisco [26] 34
17:02:38: RAY: Cisco-AVpair [1] 28 'device-traffic-class = voice.
17:02:38: RADIUS: Message-Authenticato [80] 18
17:02:38: RADIUS: D9 42 78 88 26 5A 65 83 68 B0 E0 C7 AF 5TH 0F 51 [B
[x & Zeh ^ Q]
17:02:38: RADIUS (00000009): receipt of id 1645/64
17:02:38: RADIUS/DECODE: EAP-Message fragments, 4, total 4 bytes
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Dot1x FastEthernet0/9 information
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EAP AUTHENTICATOR =
PortControl = AUTO
ControlDirection = both
HostMode = MULTI_DOMAIN
Violation mode = PROTECT
A re-authentication = on
QuietPeriod = 60
ServerTimeout = 0
SuppTimeout = 30
ReAuthPeriod = 30 (configured locally)
ReAuthMax = 2
MaxReq = 2
TxPeriod = 30
RateLimitPeriod = 0
Dot1x authenticator customer list
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Domain = DATA
"Supplicant" = 0004.0d9b.46d8
AUTH State = AUTHENTICATED SM
AUTH BEND State IDLE = SM
Port status = AUTHORIZED
ReAuthPeriod = 30
ReAuthAction = is re-authenticated
TimeToNextReauth = 20
Authentication method = Dot1x
Authorized by = authentication server
Policy of VLAN = n/a
I don't think I need CDP to allow the field of voice, if the Radius server sends the attribute "cisco-av-pair".
Have I misunderstood the concept?
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Sorry John, my comment is not directed at you. The link you posted, the content is very, the lack of a better term, misleading.
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Good afternoon Anup Sasikumar
Please use our forum
My name is Johnnatan I am part of the community of support to small businesses, I saw your post and I understand that you want to configure VTP and GVRP.
I'm afraid you will have to configure it manually each Vlan in each device CatOS GVRP, in order to keep their databases vlan in sync. As you say, VTP is support it not in CatOS
You can try to connect the two protocols, but I encourage you do not follow this procedure.
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I hope that you will find this answer useful, if it was satisfactory to you, please indicate the question as answer.
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interface Ethernet0
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full duplex
nameif outside
security-level 0
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nameif inside
security-level 100
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NAT-control
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NAT (inside) 0-list of access inside_nat0_outbound
NAT (inside) 12 172.16.0.12 255.255.255.255
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internal VPN_clientes group strategy
attributes of Group Policy VPN_clientes
xxyyzz.NET value by default-field
internal VPN_client_group group strategy
attributes of Group Policy VPN_client_group
Split-tunnel-policy tunnelspecified
value of Split-tunnel-network-list VPN_client_group_splitTunnelAcl
xxyyzz.local value by default-field
!
I join all the details of the cryptographic algorithms because the VPN is successfully completed, as I said at the beginning. In addition, routing tables are irrelevant in my opinion, because the inaccessible hosts are directly connected to the internal LAN of the PIX 515.
Thank you very much.
can you confirm asa have NAT traversal allow otherwise, activate it in asa and vpn clients try again.
PIX / ASA 7.1 and earlier versions
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