Concept Guide

In the Instant UI
To enable MAC Authentication for a wireless network:
1. On the Network tab, click New to create a new network profile or select an existing profile for which you
want to enable MAC authentication and click edit.
2. In the Edit <profile-name> or the New WLAN window, ensure that all required WLAN and VLAN
attributes are defined, and then click Next.
3. On the Security tab, select Enabled from the MAC authentication drop-down list for the Personal or
the Open security level.
4. Specify the type of authentication server to use.
5. If an internal authentication server is used, perform the following steps to allow MAC-address-based
authentication:
a. Click the Users link beside the Internal server parameter. The Users window is displayed.
b. Specify the client MAC address as the username and password.
c. Specify the type of the user (employee or guest).
d. Click Add.
e. Repeat the steps to add more users.
f. Click OK.
6. To allow the W-IAP to use a delimiter in the MAC authentication request, specify a character ( for example,
colon or dash) as a delimiter for the MAC address string. For example, if you specify colon as the delimiter,
MAC addresses in the xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx format are used. If the delimiter is not specified, the MAC address in
the xxxxxxxxxxxx format is used.
7. To allow the W-IAP to use uppercase letters in the MAC address string, set Uppercase support to Enabled.
8. Configure other parameters as required.
9. Click Next to define access rules, and then click Finish to apply the changes.
In the CLI
To configure MAC-address based authentication with external server:
(Instant AP)(config)# wlan ssid-profile <name>
(Instant AP)(SSID Profile <name>)# type {<Employee>|<Voice>|<Guest>}
(Instant AP)(SSID Profile <name>)# mac-authentication
(Instant AP)(SSID Profile <name>)# mac-authentication-delimiter <delim>
(Instant AP)(SSID Profile <name>)# mac-authentication-upper-case
(Instant AP)(SSID Profile <name>)# external-server
(Instant AP)(SSID Profile <name>)# auth-server <server-name1>
(Instant AP)(SSID Profile <name>)# auth-server <server-name2>
(Instant AP)(SSID Profile <name>)# server-load-balancing
(Instant AP)(SSID Profile <name>)# radius-reauth-interval <minutes>
(Instant AP)(SSID Profile <name>)# end
(Instant AP)# commit apply
To add users for MAC authentication based on internal authentication server:
(Instant AP)(config)# user <username> [<password>] [portal|radius]
(Instant AP)(config)# end
(Instant AP)# commit apply
Configuring MAC Authentication for Wired Profiles
You can configure MAC authentication for a wired profile in the Instant UI or the CLI.
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