158CHAPTER 8: CONFIGURING AND MANAGING MOBILITY DOMAIN ROAMING

Configuring

You can enhance security on your network by enabling WX-WX security.

WX-WX Security

WX-WX security encrypts management traffic exchanged by WX switches

 

in a Mobility Domain.

 

When WX-WX security is enabled, management traffic among WX

 

switches in the Mobility Domain is encrypted using AES. The keying

 

material is dynamically generated for each session and passed among

 

switches using public keys that you configure.

 

To configure WX-WX security:

 

„ Set Mobility Domain security on each switch to required. The default

 

setting is none. WX-WX security can be disabled or enabled on a

 

Mobility Domain basis. The feature must have the same setting

 

(required or none) on all switches in the Mobility Domain. Use the

 

following command on the seed and on each member to enable

 

WX-WX security:

 

set domain security required

 

This command also creates a certificate.

 

„ On the Mobility Domain seed, specify the public key for each member.

 

Use the following command:

 

set mobility-domain member ip-addrkey hex-bytes

 

Specify the key as 16 hexadecimal bytes, separated by colons. Here is

 

an example:

 

00:11:22:33:44:55:66:77:88:99:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff

 

„ On each member switch, specify the seed’s IP address and its public

 

key. Use the following command:

 

set mobility-domain mode member seed-ip ip-addrkey

 

hex-bytes

 

This command does not need to be entered on the seed switch.

 

„ On the seed and on each member, generate a private key. Use the

 

following command:

crypto generate key domain 128

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