User Guide

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Nortel WLAN Security Switch 2300 Series Configuration Guide
Configuring AAA for Network
Users
About AAA for Network Users
Network users include the following types of users:
Wireless users—Users who access the network by associating with an SSID on a Nortel radio.
Wired authentication users—Users who access the network over an Ethernet connection to an WSS switch port that
is configured as a wired authentication (wired-auth) port.
You can configure authentication rules for each type of user, on an individual SSID or wired authentication port basis.
WSS Software authenticates users based on user information on RADIUS servers or in the WSS switch’s local database.
The RADIUS servers or local database authorize successfully authenticated users for specific network access, including
VLAN membership. Optionally, you also can configure accounting rules to track network access information.
The following sections describe the WSS Software authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) features in
more detail.
About AAA for Network Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
AAA Tools for Network Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Configuring 802.1X Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Configuring Authentication and Authorization by MAC Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Configuring Web-based AAA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
Configuring Last-Resort Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
Configuring AAA for Users of Third-Party APs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Assigning Authorization Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
Overriding or Adding Attributes Locally with a Location Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Configuring Accounting for Wireless Network Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
Displaying the AAA Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Avoiding AAA Problems in Configuration Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Configuring a Mobility Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
Network User Configuration Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469