[systemd-devel] feature request: implement macsec interface configuration in systemd-networkd

Tomasz Torcz tomek at pipebreaker.pl
Tue Apr 18 06:25:09 UTC 2017


On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 01:46:29PM +0000, george Nopicture wrote:
> Are there any plans on implementing macsec interface configuration from
> systemd-networkd? Since its already added in kernel as a loadable
> module, fedora misses a patched iproute2 to support macsec and also
> lacks automatic interface configuration (i dunno if nm supports it?)
> preferably from systemd-networkd.

  MACSec is supported by Network Manager. But how much cryptography does
MACSec require? If it's anything more than trivial amount, probably iwd or
wpa_supplicant would be a better place to implement it.

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