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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2005
Plamen Nedeltchev, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Max Pritikin, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Gautam Aggarwal, San Jose, CA (US);
Pedro J. Leonardo, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Iacobacci, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Plamen Nedeltchev, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Max Pritikin, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Gautam Aggarwal, San Jose, CA (US);
Pedro J. Leonardo, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Iacobacci, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
According to an approach for securely deploying and configuring network devices, a secure introduction connection is established between a network device being deployed and a registrar. The secure introduction connection may conform to a secure communications protocol, such as HTTPS. The registrar provides bootstrap configuration data to the network device over the secure introduction connection. The bootstrap configuration data is used to establish a secure management connection between the network device and a secure management gateway. The secure management connection may conform to a secure communications protocol, such as IPsec or HTTPS. The secure management gateway provides user-specific configuration data and security policy data to the network device over the secure management connection. The user-specific configuration data and policy data are used to establish a secure data connection, such as a Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network (DMVPN) connection, between the network device and the secure data gateway.