Machine authentication default user role (in 802.1x authentication profile): guest

Role assignments would be as follows:

If both machine and user authentication succeed, the role is dot1x_user. If there is a server-derived role, the server-derived role takes precedence.

If only machine authentication succeeds, the role is dot1x_mc.

If only user authentication succeeds, the role is guest.

On failure of both machine and user authentication, the user does not have access to the network.

With machine authentication enabled, the VLAN to which a client is assigned (and from which the client obtains its IP address) depends upon the success or failure of the machine and user authentications. The VLAN that is ultimately assigned to a client can also depend upon attributes returned by the authentication server or server derivation rules configured on the controller (see "Understanding VLAN Assignments" on page 117). If machine authentication is successful, the client is assigned the VLAN configured in the virtual AP profile. However, the client can be assigned a derived VLAN upon successful user authentication.

NOTE: You can optionally assign a VLAN as part of a user role configuration. You should not use VLAN derivation if you

configure user roles with VLAN assignments

Table 63 describes VLAN assignment based on the results of the machine and user authentications when VLAN derivation is used.

Table 63: VLAN Assignment for User and Machine Authentication

Machine Auth

User Auth

Description

VLAN Assigned

Status

Status

 

 

Failed

Failed

Both machine authentication and user

No VLAN

 

 

authentication failed. L2 authentication failed.

 

 

 

 

 

Failed

Passed

Machine authentication fails (for example, the

VLAN configured in the

 

 

machine information is not present on the server)

virtual AP profile

 

 

and user authentication succeeds.

 

 

 

 

 

Passed

Failed

Machine authentication succeeds and user

VLAN configured in the

 

 

authentication has not been initiated.

virtual AP profile

 

 

 

 

Passed

Passed

Both machine and user are successfully

Derived VLAN. Otherwise,

 

 

authenticated.

VLAN configured in the

 

 

 

virtual AP profile.

 

 

 

 

NOTE: The administrator can now associate a VLAN Id to a client data based on the authentication credentials in a bridge mode.

Enabling 802.1x Supplicant Support on an AP

This release of ArubaOS provides 802.1X supplicant support on the Access Point (AP). The AP can be used as a 802.1x supplicant where access to the wired Ethernet network is restricted to those devices that can authenticate using 802.1x.You can provision an AP to act as an 802.1X supplicant and authenticate to the infrastructure using the PEAP protocol.

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