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Load Balance Cisco ISE servers
Trying to load Balance several Cisco ISE servers. For persistence, Cisco recommends using Calling-Station-ID and Framed-IP-address...Session-ID is recommended if load balancer is capable of it. I have documentation for the Cisco ACE, but using F5 LTM's. Assuming this has to be done with an I-Rule as none of these are available as a default. Not sue where to begin. I tried attaching the Cisco PDF, but not able for whatever reason. If anyone has any examples of knowledge of how to do this, would be appreciated. I can send the Cisco document via e-mail if that helps. I just am not able to attach it to this forum???
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- What_Lies_Bene1
Cirrostratus
Hey Richard. The Session-ID of what? A RADIUS 'request'? - Richard_Schmit_
Nimbostratus
Yes, I believe it would be Radius Request. If fyou can provide me with an e-mail, I can send you the ACE configuration document, but reading thru that, I believe it would be a Radius Request. - Richard_Schmit_
Nimbostratus
Yes, I believe it would be Radius Request. If fyou can provide me with an e-mail, I can send you the ACE configuration document, but reading thru that, I believe it would be a Radius Request. - nitass
Employee
Assuming this has to be done with an I-Rule as none of these are available as a default. Not sue where to begin.have you tried "Persist Attribute" setting in radius profile?
- Angelo
Nimbostratus
Hi
Use source persistence the problem is with the Natting in theory you should create a pass though to the backend but i'm not sure how to do that on F5. if you bypass the F5 does it work or not? - Richard_Schmit_
Nimbostratus
THis is a new trun-up. Testing this week and next.
Couple of bullet points that are taken from the Cisco ACE configuration PDF....
• Load Balancers get listed as NADs in ISE so their test authentications may be answered.
• ISE uses the Layer 3 address to identify the NAD, not the NAS-IP-Address in the
RADIUS packet. This is a primary reason to avoid Source NAT (SNAT) for traffic sent to
VIP.
So the way I'm understanding it is that NADs or network access devices which are the end station send the request to the LTM’s. Once the packet hits the LTM, then the LTM becomes the NAD from the perspective of the ISE servers.
I don' think source persistence works because on the initial request the end device still doesn't have an IP address. The ISE servers determine who and what the client is, and then based on that assign the vlan and IP space etc.
I had never used the "Persist Attribute" setting in radius profile before. I see where that setting is, but where do you apply it once you create it?
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