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NN47250-100 (Version 02.51)

Defaults

By default, authentication is unconfigured for all clients with network access through

AP ports or wired authentication ports on the WSS. Connection, authorization, and accounting are

also disabled for these users.

Bonded authentication is disabled by default.

Access

Enabled.

Usage

You can configure different authentication methods for different groups of users by

“wildcarding.” (For details, see “User Wildcards” on page 12.)

You can configure a rule either for wireless access to an SSID, or for wired access through a WSS’s wired

authentication port. If the rule is for wireless access to an SSID, specify the SSID name or specify any to

match on all SSID names. If the rule is for wired access, specify wired instead of an SSID name.

You cannot configure client authentication that uses both the EAP-TLS protocol and one or more RADIUS

servers. EAP-TLS authentication is supported only on the local WSS database.

If you specify multiple authentication methods in the set authentication dot1x command, WSS Software

applies them in the order in which they appear in the command, with these results:

• If the first method responds with pass or fail, the evaluation is final.

• If the first method does not respond, WSS Software tries the second method, and so on.

•However, if local appears first, followed by a RADIUS server group, WSS Software overrides any failed

searches in the local WSS database and sends an authentication request to the server group.

If the user does not support 802.1X, WSS Software attempts to perform MAC authentication for the user. In

this case, if the switch’s configuration contains a set authentication mac command that matches the SSID the

user is attempting to access and the user’s MAC address, WSS Software uses the method specified by the

command. Otherwise, WSS Software uses local MAC authentication by default.

If the username does not match an authentication rule for the SSID the user is attempting to access, WSS

Software uses the fallthru authentication type configured for the SSID, which can be last-resort, web-portal

(for Web-based AAA), or none.

Examples

The following command configures EAP-TLS authentication in the local WSS

database for SSID mycorp and 802.1X client Geetha:

WSS# set authentication dot1x ssid mycorp Geetha eap-tls local

success: change accepted.

The following command configures PEAP-MS-CHAP-V2 authentication at RADIUS server groups sg1

through sg3 for all 802.1X clients at example.com who want to access SSID examplecorp:

WSS# set authentication dot1x ssid examplecorp *@example.com peap-mschapv2

sg1 sg2 sg3

success: change accepted.