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Hardening and Security

Posted on July 30, 2020 by jp | 1562 Views

Overview An organisation’s communications infrastructure and the tools that surround it carry business critical, high value commercially sensitive information and are obvious targets for malicious actors to attempt to compromise and organisation or exfiltrate its intellectual property. Arista Networks takes its role in ensuring ongoing security extremely seriously through both secure manufacturing and supply as well as an ongoing commitment to vulnerability detection, mitigation and remediation. Product security must also be complemented by the implementation of product hardening best practices during the installation and operation of the infrastructure. The links provided below offer the latest best practise advice on a...
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CloudVision Portal Hardening Guide

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Ethan Rahn | 1342 Views

Introduction This guide is provided as a starting point for securing CloudVision Portal, also known as CVP. In the below sections various best practices such as non-default configurations, setup instructions, and discussions of other monitoring systems are discussed. The best way to ensure that a CVP system remains secure is to combine the configuration instructions discussed below with a monitoring solution for log output. In addition, keeping CVP up to date and monitoring Arista’s list of security advisories ( https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories ) is always recommended. CVP Default Settings By default CVP should be expected to ship with settings that will work...
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Configurations and Optimizations for Internet Edge Routing

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Dimitri Capetz | 2770 Views

Introduction For many years, network deployments for enterprise Internet edge environments have consisted of dedicated routing platforms and a switching or aggregation layer to distribute this to various network zones. With the advances in merchant silicon forwarding engines and the software expertise put into Arista’s Extensible Operating System (EOS), we can now fully replace this legacy architecture with a collapsed routing and switching layer using Arista R Series platforms. Arista R Series platforms allow for holding a full copy of the Internet routing table for both IPv4 and IPv6 in hardware (the Forwarding Information Base, or FIB) with plenty of...
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User passwords with blank spaces

Posted on June 21, 2018 by john spence | 1920 Views

Overview Arista EOS allows users to define local user accounts using the command “username <name> secret <password> “, where <password> is a plain text password. However, the Arista CLI does not accept blank spaces in the <password> portion of the command. This restriction is due to a limitation in the parsing algorithm EOS uses to find the password in the command. The parsing algorithm does not recognize blank spaces when parsing the password. To work around this issue a password with blank spaces can be manually converted to a SHA512 hash and the hash can be applied to...
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Tap Aggregration Tip: Popping MPLS tags for Untagged or VLAN based Tools

Posted on May 12, 2018 by John Frame | 1245 Views

In Tap Aggregation scenarios common in WAN and Service Provider environments, MPLS tags are present. Many of the analysis tools do not understand these tags and so the Arista DANZ feature set allows for these to be removed. This functionality has been around since 4.15.0F however initially had the limitation that the traffic would always be sent out the Tool port with a VLAN tag. However, some tools not only do not understand MPLS, but also VLAN tags, so this tip describes how to deal with both 802.1q and untagged scenarios. Step 1: Configure MPLS pop/strip on the Tap port:...
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Arista Any Cloud Platform – Security Use Case

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Tom Ferranti | 521 Views

Introduction In this document we will demonstrate how to effectively leverage Arista’s vEOS Router in a Transit – Edge VPC model to satisfy a common security use case. As most companies look to move into the public cloud space, security vulnerabilities have gained more focus than ever before. Objective Provide a centralized security model within an AWS region, which will allow for ease of visibility and control. Deploying separate AWS Internet Gateways in every VPC, increases complexity and vulnerabilities in the public cloud space. Prerequisites This document assumes that you have the following architecture deployed: A Transit – Edge VPC topology deployed...
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Using stunnel (TLS Proxy) to secure OpenFlow on EOS

Posted on November 5, 2017 by Richard | 253 Views

Do you have an OpenFlow controller that supports communication channel encryption via TLS and you’d like to take advantage of that option with an Arista switch? No problem! Just follow these simple steps and in mere minutes you’ll have a secure TLS connection up and running. Just imagine the look of shock and amazement on the faces of your friends, family and coworkers as you extend the capabilities of your EOS powered switch in near real time! 1) Please download Stunnel from here: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/stunnel-4.33-1.fc14.i686.rpm 2) Copy it to flash on the switch: switch#copy scp://@//stunnel-4.33-1.fc14.i686.rpm flash: 3) Install the...
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VXLAN: security recommendations

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Sergey Kolobov | 2302 Views

Abstract This document provides recommendations that are advised to implement in order to increase the security in multitenant network environments built on Arista Networks devices using VXLAN. Introduction One of the crucial qualities of modern cloud network infrastructure is scalability. Scalability can’t be achieved if security of the network operations inside the cloud is compromised. As for example, load scalability is not achievable in environments where the VMs are not able to operate when the network between them is not working properly due to hijacked MAC-addresses. One of the technologies used nowadays to address the challenges with scalability inside the cloud networks...
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How to Install & Configure Arista’s DirectFlow Assist for Palo Alto Firewalls

Posted on January 12, 2016 by William | 14307 Views

Contents Summary Prerequisite Summary Prerequisite Concepts Configuring QoS Markings Configuring the DFA Modes DFA Installation Palo Alto Configuration Troubleshooting SUMMARY For the high level solution brief, view the Palo Alto Solution Brief. One of the many features of having an Arista switch is the ability to install extensions on the box. Remember that you can manage the Arista switch as if it was a Linux server (it actually is, but that’s outside the scope of this article) – and because of this we can install RPM packages. One of the packages we can install is Arista’s DirectFlow Assist (DFA), which...
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