Switches: RADIUS or GANYMEDE?

Hello

So far I've managed my switches with GANYMEDE +, but now I have deploy 802. 1 X, requiring RADIUS only.

For all I know, ACS (I use 4.2) allows you to set a device using only GANYMEDE or RADIUS, but not both.

Am not mistaken? Or there is a way to define an AAA client to communicate with the ACS even using two protocols?

Assuming I'm right, I then considered the following options:

-Configure all switches to use radius for any service (authentication, authorization ec etc.) this makes it easier, but I lose the GANYMEDE services + for switches. What a big loss?

OR

-Configure L3 switches to use a second closure, just for the RADIUS services. It would always use the GANYMEDE + but would require a new network for the service RADIUS; In addition, switches L2 does not support both IP addresses and would require anyway a migration to the RADIUS.

A considerable administrative burden, in other words.

I'm not ready to deploy a second RAY (ACS, Windows, whatever), right now.

The key point is this: reading autour I see documentation Cisco recommends always using GANYMEDE + for management, but in this case is not possible. In general, whenever the unit has a role of network entry (switch or access point) RAY seems to be the Protocol of choice. Moving to the RADIUS would have some drawback or a change in the communication protocol? (I know the difference between GANYMEDE + and RADIUS: tcp, udp vs, vs whole package of only the password encryption encryption).

Thanks anticipately

C

Hello Carlo,.

You can keep using GANYMEDE + for device management and RADIUS to 802. 1 x, with no need for an additional IPN focuses on additional servers or IP on each managed device.

4.2 ACS allows allows you to set two AAA Clients with the same IP address, one for GANYMEDE + and for RADIUS, however, the host name must be unique.

Then, on the switch, you can define the same ACS server as a server radius and Ganymede-server host, configure the controls of "aaa" to connect to the console and pointing to the GANYMEDE server authorization + and part dot1x pointing to the RADIUS server.

What you're looking for is feasible and it is normal to use GANYMEDE + for device management and RADIUS for 802. 1 x.

I hope that answers your questions.

Kind regards

Federico

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