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Re: Application or Software to detect or Block unmanaged swicthes


From: Kasper Adel <karim.adel () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 10:21:55 -0700

I guess you can do that and more with a linux based switch like cumulus and
pica8.

They allow you to do all sorts of things like that because they are open.

On Thursday, June 7, 2018, <keith () contoocook net> wrote:

In my previous life, we used a nac appliance from Bradford Networks
whereby the mac address of every device needed to be registered or the
switch port it was plugged into would be disabled.
This kept spurious devices from appearing on the network and worked quite
well.
Cheers, Keith

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal () dataix net>
To: segs <michaelolusegunrufai () gmail com>
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Sent: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 7:54
Subject: Re: Application or Software to detect or Block unmanaged swicthes

As someone already stated the obvious answers, the slightly more difficult
route to be getting a count of allowed devices and MAC addresses, then
moving forward with something like ansible to poll the count of MAC’s on
any given port ... of number higher than what’s allowed, suspend the port
and send a notification to the appropriate parties.


All in all though sounds like a really brash thing to do to your network
team and will generally know and have a very good reason for doing so...
but not all situations are created equally so good luck.


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On Jun 7, 2018, at 03:57, segs <michaelolusegunrufai () gmail com> wrote:

Hello All,

Please I have a very interesting scenario that I am on the lookout for a
solution for, We have instances where the network team of my company
bypass
controls and processes when adding new switches to the network.

The right parameters that are required to be configured on the switches
inorder for the NAC solution deployed to have full visibility into end
points that connects to such switches are not usually configured.

This poses a problem for the security team as they dont have visibility
into such devices that connect to such switches on the NAC solution, the
network guys usually connect the new switches to the trunk port and they
have access to all VLANs.

Is there a solution that can detect new or unmanaged switches on the
network, and block such devices or if there is a solution that block
users
that connect to unmanaged switches on the network even if those users
have
domain PCs.

Anticipating your speedy response.

Thank You!



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