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Brocade 6910 Ethernet Access Switch Diagnostic Guide 61
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Chapter
7Security Diagnostics
In this chapter
This chapter describes diagnostic information for security environments on the Brocade 6910
series switches.
•802.1x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
•Port loop detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
•Port mirroring and monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
•RADIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
•SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
•TACACS and TACACS+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
•Telnet and SSH connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
•SNTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
802.1x
802.1x port security allows you to configure a Brocade device to grant access to a port based on
information supplied by a client to an authentication server.
This section describes how to use show commands to monitor 802.1x configurations and activity
on Brocade 6910 series switches.
802.1x show commands
You can display the following 802.1x-related information:
• Information about the 802.1x configuration on the device and on individual ports
• Statistics about the EAPOL frames passing through the device
• Information about the 802.1x multiple client configuration
show dot1x
Syntax: show dot1x
This command displays information about the 802.1x configuration, as shown in the following
example.
Console# show dot1x
Global 802.1X Parameters
System Auth Control : Enabled
Authenticator Parameters:
EAPOL Pass Through : Disabled