- Written by Tarun Jaswanth LNU
- Posted on October 20, 2022
- Updated on November 3, 2022
- 8035 Views
As per the mechanism suggested for MKA protocol, a new SAK generation, distribution and installation in all members of a connectivity association ( CA ) can be thought of happening in a number of steps
- Written by Vikas Hegde
- Posted on June 29, 2016
- Updated on February 8, 2022
- 9145 Views
Support for Media Access Control Security (MACsec) with static keys was added in EOS 4.15.4. This feature brings
- Written by Gustavo Lau
- Posted on September 5, 2018
- Updated on October 3, 2018
- 8963 Views
A MACsec port with this feature enabled transmits LLDP frames without MACSec encryption and receives LLDP frames
- Written by Megha Sinha
- Posted on October 9, 2018
- Updated on December 9, 2020
- 9891 Views
If MACsec is enabled on an interface, it tries to establish MACsec Key Agreement (MKA) session(s) with its peer.
- Written by Trevor Yu
- Posted on February 23, 2022
- Updated on November 26, 2024
- 14964 Views
Media Access Control Security (MACSec) is an industry standard encryption mechanism that protects all traffic flowing on the Ethernet links. MACSec is based on IEEE 802.1X and IEEE 802.1AE standards.
- Written by Jeff Chan
- Posted on June 16, 2022
- Updated on August 24, 2022
- 8963 Views
Media Access Control Security (MACSec) is an industry standard encryption mechanism to protect all traffic flowing on Ethernet links. Mac Security is described in IEEE 802.1X and IEEE 802.1AE standards.
- Written by Kieran Weaver
- Posted on December 20, 2024
- Updated on December 20, 2024
- 1239 Views
Media Access Control Security (MACsec) is an industry standard encryption mechanism that protects all traffic flowing on the Ethernet links. MACsec is based on IEEE 802.1X and IEEE 802.1AE standards.
- Written by Sambath Kumar Balasubramanian
- Posted on October 10, 2018
- Updated on October 22, 2018
- 10458 Views
This feature enables MacSec service over VxLAN . Macsec over Vxlan is provided by mapping a VNI, Remote VTEP Ip to a
- Written by Etash Tyagi
- Posted on February 19, 2024
- Updated on October 24, 2024
- 4318 Views
The macsec scheduler compensation feature is used to automatically make adjustments to the packet size seen by the scheduler for macsec encrypted traffic, based on mac security configuration. This feature is useful when macsec is configured on an interface. When a packet egresses out of the macsec enabled interface, the packet gets encrypted by adding additional macsec headers.
- Written by Tarun Jaswanth LNU
- Posted on June 5, 2023
- Updated on June 12, 2023
- 7109 Views
MACsec Stateful Switchover (SSO) allows for a switchover from an active supervisor to a standby supervisor where MACsec traffic remains undisrupted during switchover. This TOI describes details and limitations of MACsec Stateful Switchover.
- Written by Avineet Sharma
- Posted on April 24, 2025
- Updated on April 24, 2025
- 46 Views
DMF 8.7.0 supports Media Access Control Security (MACsec) as an Early Field Trial (EFT) feature. MACsec is a global configuration option for the entire fabric, with the option to enable it on intracore traffic only. MACsec only encrypts traffic between core switches, ignoring all other ancillary traffic (e.g., tap to filter, delivery to tool). MACsec is a licensed feature. Verify a MACsec license is installed on all switches participating in MACsec before using this feature.
- Written by Japraj Sandhu
- Posted on December 20, 2024
- Updated on December 20, 2024
- 1176 Views
By default, the only visibility a user has into packets that are dropped due to errors with the MACsec/IPsec protocols is a set of counters, such as with show mac security counters detail. This feature enables redirecting such packets to the CPU for manual inspection; it is intended to assist with debugging unexpected packet drops.
- Written by Ishwar Biliya
- Posted on February 15, 2024
- Updated on February 15, 2024
- 4263 Views
Currently, in EOS Macsec, padding of partial keys internally prepends both the CAK and CKN hex strings with 0s to satisfy the requirement of Key Derivation Function.This feature allows users to configure the zero padding to either prepend or append the pre-shared CAK/CKN configured in mac security profile. In general, full length CAK/CKN are recommended to be configured. However, this CLI knob can be used in case of configuration of partial CAK/CKN results into issues with derived keys between the peers. Note that the CKN advertised in MACsec control frames will still be without any padding, even when partial CKN is configured.
- Written by Kieran Weaver
- Posted on March 3, 2023
- Updated on February 2, 2024
- 7886 Views
Media Access Control Security (MACsec) is an industry-standard encryption mechanism that protects all traffic flowing on the Ethernet links. MACsec is based on IEEE 802.1X and IEEE 802.1AE standards.
- Written by Kaustav Majumdar
- Posted on August 23, 2022
- Updated on September 12, 2022
- 7811 Views
Support for Media Access Control Security ( MACsec ) was added in EOS-4.15.4. MACsec defines a secure channel ( SC ) from one peer to another peer as a security relationship which provides security guarantees for the frames transmitted from the first peer to the second peer.
- Written by Manish Singhvi
- Posted on October 10, 2018
- Updated on October 22, 2018
- 8972 Views
Support for Media Access Control Security (MACsec) was added in EOS 4.15.4. It introduced the concept of configuring
- Written by Kaustav Majumdar
- Posted on April 19, 2022
- Updated on June 2, 2022
- 8337 Views
Support for Media Access Control Security ( MACsec ) was added in EOS-4.15.4. It introduced the concept of configuring pre-shared keys ( PSKs ) for the purpose of MKA negotiation.
- Written by Kaustav Majumdar
- Posted on August 20, 2020
- Updated on August 20, 2020
- 8076 Views
Media Access Control Security (MACsec) is an industry standard encryption mechanism that protects all traffic
- Written by Lavanya Conjeevaram
- Posted on July 25, 2018
- Updated on July 25, 2018
- 7343 Views
Media Access Control Security (MACsec) is an industry standard security technology that provides secure
- Written by Oren Moshe
- Posted on February 17, 2021
- Updated on July 15, 2022
- 10833 Views
VLAN tagged MACsec refers to frames that have a VLAN tag between the MAC source address and the MACsec ethertype. This VLAN tag is unencrypted (in the clear) so that intermediate devices between the MACsec endpoints can forward the MACsec frames based on this unencrypted VLAN tag.