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MACsec on Linux

13 October 2016

Starting with kernel 4.6, support for MACsec has been added in Linux so it won’t be needed to use a release candidate to test this feature. There are two ways to implement MACsec: manually configure secure channel(SC), security association(SA) and the keys(this is what we are going to see) use dot1x with MACsec extensions that… Keep reading »

MACsec over l2circuit

6 October 2016

In two older posts, Media Access Control Security(MACsec IEEE 802.1AE) – static secure association keys and Media Access Control Security(MACsec IEEE 802.1AE) – static connectivity association key we saw how you can configure MACsec on EX4550 switches. In both examples, the two devices where MACsec was configured were directly connected. But what happens when you… Keep reading »