Chapter 16 Port Authentication
Figure 71 Advanced Application > Port Authentication > MAC Authentication
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 40 Advanced Application > Port Authentication > MAC Authentication
LABEL | DESCRIPTION |
Active | Select this check box to permit MAC authentication on the Switch. |
| Note: You must first enable MAC authentication on the Switch |
| before configuring it on each port. |
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Name Prefix | Type the prefix that is appended to all MAC addresses sent to the RADIUS server |
| for authentication. You can enter up to 32 printable ASCII characters. |
| If you leave this field blank, then only the MAC address of the client is forwarded to |
| the RADIUS server. |
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Password | Type the password the Switch sends along with the MAC address of a client for |
| authentication with the RADIUS server. You can enter up to 32 printable ASCII |
| characters. |
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Timeout | Specify the amount of time before the Switch allows a client MAC address that fails |
| authentication to try and authenticate again. Maximum time is 3000 seconds. |
| When a client fails MAC authentication, its MAC address is learned by the MAC |
| address table with a status of denied. The timeout period you specify here is the |
| time the MAC address entry stays in the MAC address table until it is cleared. If you |
| specify 0 for the timeout value, then this entry will not be deleted from the MAC |
| address table. |
| Note: If the Aging Time in the Switch Setup screen is set to a |
| lower value, then it supersedes this setting. See Section 7.5 |
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Port | This field displays the port number. |
| 135 |
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