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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2024
Filed:
May. 13, 2022
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Roberto Mitsuo Kobo, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Zheng Li, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gopala Krishna Andagunda, Karnataka, IN;
Einar Nilsen-Nygaard, East Ayrshire, GB;
Shree Murthy, San Jose, CA (US);
Parthiv Shah, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for authenticating and enforcing differentiated policies for a virtual machine (VM) executing in bridge mode on a wireless host device in a media access control (MAC)-based authentication network are described. In an example method a wireless host device is authorized to join a fabric enabled wireless network. A VM executes in bridge mode on the wireless host device. At the fabric edge, a source MAC address of the VM is determined. A session is created between the VM and an authentication server. The VM is authenticated. A policy for the VM is determined. A source internet protocol (IP) address is assigned to the VM to create a MAC-IP binding. A data-plane device in the fabric enabled wireless network is programmed to apply the policy to traffic communicated with the VM. Finally, the data-plane device applies the policy for the VM based at least in part on the MAC-IP binding.