MicroNet Technology SP1659P user manual State, y Radius Server, y Port Number, y Secret Key

connected is in the unauthorized state, the supplicant and the devices connected to this port won’t be allowed to access the network.

10.When the supplicant issue an EAP-Logoff message to Authentication server, the port you are using is set to be unauthorized.

Only MultiHost 802.1X is the type of authentication supported in the switch. In this mode, for the devices connected to this port, once a supplicant is authorized, the devices connected to this port can access the network resource through this port.

802.1x Port-based Network Access Control function supported by the switch is little bit complex, for it just support basic Multihost mode, which can distinguish the device’s MAC address and VID. The following table is the summary of the combination of the authentication status and the port status versus the status of port mode, set in 802.1x Port mode, port control state, set in 802.1x port setting. Here Entry Authorized means MAC entry is authorized.

Port Mode Port Control Authentication Port Status

Disable

Multihost

Multihost

Multihost

Multihost

Don’t Care	Don’t Care
Auto	Successful
Auto	Failure
Force Unauthorized	Don’t Care
Force Authorized	Don’t Care

Port Uncontrolled

Port Authorized

Port Unauthorized

Port Unauthorized

Port Authorized

3.14.1State

This function is used to configure the global parameters for RADIUS authentication in 802.1x port security application.

Parameter description:

yRadius Server:

RADIUS server IP address for authentication.

Default: 192.168.1.1

yPort Number:

The port number to communicate with RADIUS server for the authentication service. The valid value ranges 1-65535.

Default port number is 1812.

ySecret Key:

The secret key between authentication server and authenticator. It is a string with the length 1 – 31 characters. The character string may contain upper case, lower case and 0-9. It is character sense. It is not allowed for putting a blank between any two characters.

Default: Radius

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