Reference Guide

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• Attribute 41—NAS-Port-Type: NAS-port physical port type. 15 indicates Ethernet.
• Attribute 61—NAS-Port: the physical port number by which the authenticator is connected to the
supplicant.
• Attribute 81—Tunnel-Private-Group-ID: associate a tunneled session with a particular group of
users.
Configuring 802.1X
Configuring 802.1X on a port is a one-step process:
1. Enabling 802.1X.
Related Configuration Tasks
• Configuring Request Identity Re-transmissions
• Forcibly Authorizing or Unauthorizing a Port
• Re-authenticating a Port
• Configuring Timeouts
• Configuring a Guest VLAN
• Configuring an Authentication-fail VLAN
Important Points to Remember
• Dell Networking OS supports 802.1X with EAP-MD5, EAP-OTP, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, PEAPv0,
PEAPv1, and MS-CHAPv2 with PEAP.
• All platforms support only RADIUS as the authentication server.
• If the primary RADIUS server becomes unresponsive, the authenticator begins using a secondary
RADIUS server, if configured.
• 802.1X is not supported on port-channels or port-channel members.
Enabling 802.1X
802.1X must be enabled globally.