07-28-2017 01:12 PM
can't find a definition for the setting fips-gated = true, what is fips-gated?
07-28-2017 01:15 PM
This topic was posted inside Community Feedback and not in the General Discussion.. Moving topic.
07-29-2017 12:05 AM
Correct me if I'm wrong but your seeing this on your management interface correct? cfg.net.eth0.cfg and cfg.net.eth1.cfg?
07-31-2017 11:02 AM
Yes it's the management interface. Can't seem to find a definition for it in the documentation.
07-31-2017 01:12 PM - edited 07-31-2017 01:12 PM
To the best of my knowledge it's essentially a flag checked by the maintenance console that either enables or disabled the ability to modify the mangement port IP address by booting into mainenance mode. When you enable FIPS you get blocked out of modifying this directly from the maintenance console due to the security risk associated with the ability to do so.
07-31-2017 01:26 PM
Ah, thanks, makes sense. Wonder why it's not documented very well.
I searched for maintenence mode and found a procedure to recover if you have forgot your IP (not sure how you would forget that).
I see the setting on the example page (link below) , but no definition.
I'm seeing it set to true on my setup, so I assume that is the default.
07-31-2017 01:43 PM
FIPS certification requires that self-tests complete before the interfaces can be used.
The FIPS-Gated flag on an interface that ensures that, while in FIPS-CC mode, the interface does not come up before FIPS mode self-tests have completed. You may see some systems with fips-disabled, which similarly means that in that mode the interface will not be available at all.
If you're not in FIPS mode, the flag isn't used for anything. It's not something that can be modified, so that is likely why there is not much documentation on it. The output of the system state has a lot of things that probably aren't all that useful but are there for debug purposes.
07-31-2017 02:16 PM
good to know. Glad to know I wasn't terribly off then 😉
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