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Chapter 10 Configuring IEEE 802.1x Port-Based Authentication
Understanding IEEE 802.1x Port-Based Authentication
Auto enablement: Automatically enables trunk configuration on the authenticator switch, allowing
user traffic from multiple VLANs coming from supplicant switches. This can be achieved by
configuring the cisco-av-pair as device-traffic-class=switch at the ACS. (You can configure this
under the group or user setttings.)
Figure 10-6 Authenticator and Supplicant Switch using CISP
For more information, see the “Configuring 802.1x Switch Supplicant with NEAT” section on
page 10-55.
Web Authentication
You can use a web browser to authenticate a client that does not support 802.1x functionality. This
feature can authenticate up to eight users on the same shared port and apply the appropriate policies for
each end host on a shared port.
You can configure a port to use only web authentication. You can also configure the port to first try and
use 802.1x authentication and then to use web authorization if the client does not support 802.1x
authentication.
Web authentication requires two Cisco Attribute-Value (AV) pair attributes:
The first attribute, priv-lvl=15, must always be set to 15. This sets the privilege level of the user
who is logging into the switch.
The second attribute is an access list to be applied for web-authenticated hosts. The syntax is similar
to 802.1x per-user access control lists (ACLs). However, instead of ip:inacl, this attribute must
begin with proxyacl, and the source field in each entry must be any. (After authentication, the
client IP address replaces the any field when the ACL is applied.)
For example:
proxyacl# 10=permit ip any 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0
proxyacl# 20=permit ip any 11.1.0.0 255.255.0.0
proxyacl# 30=permit udp any any eq syslog
proxyacl# 40=permit udp any any eq tftp
Note The proxyacl entry determines the type of allowed network access.
1Workstations (clients) 2Supplicant switch (outside wiring closet)
3Authenticator switch 4Access control server (ACS)
5Trunk port
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