Brocade Communications Systems 53-1001763-02 User Manual

Preparing the switch for FIPS

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Enabling FIPS mode

1. Log in to the switch using an account assigned the admin or securityAdmin role.

2. Optional: Select the appropriate method based on your needs:

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If the switch is set for RADIUS, modify each server to use only peap-mschapv2 as the 
authentication protocol using the aaaConfig 

change or aaaConfig 

remove command.

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If the switch is set for LDAP, refer to the instructions in 

3. Optional: Set the authentication protocols.

a. Type the following command to set the hash type for MD5 which is used in authentication 

protocols DHCHAP and FCAP:

authutil --set -h sha1

b. Set the DH group to 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 using authUtil --set -g <n>, where the DH group is 

represented by <n>.

4. Install the LDAP CA certificate on the switch and Microsoft Active Directory server. Refer to the 

instructions 

5. Block Telnet, HTTP, and RPC using the ipfilter policy command.

You will need to create an IPFilter policy for each protocol.

a. Create an IP filter rule for each protocol, see 

b. Add a rule to the IP filter policy, see 

 on page 157. You 

can use the following modifications to the rule:

ipfilter --addrule <policyname> -rule <rule_number> -sip <source_IP> -dp
<dest_port> -proto <protocol> -act <deny>

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-sip

 option can be given as any

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-dp

 option for the port numbers for Telnet, HTTP, and RPC are 23, 80, and 898 

respectively

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-proto 

option should be set to tcp

c. Activate the IP filter policy, see 

d. Save the IP filter policy, see 

 on page 154.

Example 

ipfilter --createrule http_block_v4 --type ipv4
ipfilter --addrule http_block_v4 -rule 2 -sip any -dp 80 -proto tcp -act deny
ipfilter --activate http_block_v4
ipfilter --save http_block_v4

6. Type the following command to block access to the boot PROM:

fipscfg –-disable bootprom

Block boot PROM access before disabling root account.

7. Enable signed firmware by typing the configure command and respond to the prompts as 

follows: 
System services

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