Enhancements

Release M.10.39 Enhancements

You can configure local, chap-radiusor eap-radiusas the primary password authentication method for the port-access method. You also need to select none or authorized as a secondary, or backup, method.

Syntax: aaa authentication port-access <chap-radius eap-radius local>

Configures local, chap-radius, or eap-radiusas the primary password authentication method for port-access. The default primary authentication is local.

[<none authorized >]

Provides options for secondary authentication. The none option specifies that a backup authentication method is not used. The authorized option allows access without authentication. (default: none).

You can configure chap-radiusas the primary password authentication method for web-based or mac- based port-access methods. You also need to select none or authorized as a secondary, or backup, method.

Syntax: aaa authentication <mac-based web-based> chap-radius

Configures chap-radiusas the primary password authentication method for mac-based or web-based port access.

[<none authorized >]

Provides options for secondary authentication. The none option specifies that a backup authentication method is not used. The authorized option allows access without authentication. (default: none).

Figure 1 shows an example of the show authentication command displaying authorized as the secondary authentication method for port-access, Web-auth access, and Mac-auth access. Since the configuration of authorized means no authentication will be performed and the client has unconditional access to the network, the “Enable Primary” and “Enable Secondary” fields are not applicable (N/A).

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