User manual NETGEAR GSM7312

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Product and Publication Details Model Number: Publication Date: Product Family: Product Name: Home or Business Product: Language: Publication Part Number: Publication Version Number February 2006 NETGEAR managed switch 7xxx Series Managed Switch Business English Beta Draft 1 1. 0 ii Publication Version 1. 0, February 2006 Contents Application Note: Configuring and Enabling Management Security Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Enabling Management Security Certificate Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1 Configuring Secure Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2 Disabling Insecure Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3 Configuring Secure Socket Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3 Preventing Insecure Web Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4 Appendix A Certificate Generation Scripts SSH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1 SSL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1 SSL Helper Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Managing devices with a web browser has been standard practice for several years. Unfortunately, standard HTTP transactions are no more secure than telnet. This was one of the original barriers to the success of "e-commerce". The solution (then and now) is the use of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. SSL provides a means of abstracting an encrypted connection between two stations. Once established, such a connection is virtually no different to use than an unsecured connection. This allows an established protocol (e. g. HTTP) to operate in a secure manner on an open network. A third component of management on a modern networking appliance is SNMP. The SNMP protocol has it own security mechanisms outside of SSH and SSL. Consequently discussion of security for SNMP transactions is outside the scope of this document. Introduction v1. 0, February 2006 1-1 Application Note: Configuring and Enabling Management Security 1-2 v1. 0, February 2006 Introduction Application Note: Configuring and Enabling Management Security Chapter 2 Enabling Management Security Enabling management security is a two-step process. The first step involves generating and loading appropriate authentication keys (SSH) and security certificates (SSL). Optionally a reputable third party such as RSA Security, Inc. can validate these certificates and keys but for evaluation purposes validation is unnecessary. The second step involves enabling either SSL or SSH and optionally disabling the insecure versions of telnet and web management. Once enabled, subsequent management connections may be made in a secure manner. Certificate Generation To generate self-signed credentials, the open source applications ssh-keygen and openssl can be used to create the seven files used to form the security certificates and authentication keys. Both of these applications are well documented by the open source community. Detailed descriptions will not be repeated here as the user can check the man pages for detailed help. Two scripts are included in the appendix at the end of this application note along with some helper files. This set of files can be freely modified and used to generate the appropriate self-signed credentials. [. . . ] Please consult the appropriate Command Reference for more information on configuring remote sessions. Configuring Secure Socket Layer Optionally or in concert with SSH, SSL may be enabled. Once again the message log is the best source of feedback for problem determination. To enable SSL, issue the privileged EXEC mode command: # ip http secure-server 2. Attempt a secure web access using https. [. . . ]