ZyXEL Communications GS-2750 User Manual

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Chapter 16 Port Authentication

GS-2750 User’s Guide

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Figure 66 Advanced Application > Port Authentication > MAC Authentication

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 40 Advanced Application > Port Authentication > MAC Authentication

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Active

Select this check box to permit MAC authentication on the Switch.

Note: You must first enable MAC authentication on the Switch

before configuring it on each port.

Name Prefix

Type the prefix that is appended to all MAC addresses sent to the RADIUS server

for authentication. You can enter up to 32 printable ASCII characters.
If you leave this field blank, then only the MAC address of the client is forwarded to

the RADIUS server.

Password

Type the password the Switch sends along with the MAC address of a client for

authentication with the RADIUS server. You can enter up to 32 printable ASCII

characters.

Timeout

Specify the amount of time before the Switch allows a client MAC address that fails

authentication to try and authenticate again. Maximum time is 3000 seconds.
When a client fails MAC authentication, its MAC address is learned by the MAC

address table with a status of denied. The timeout period you specify here is the

time the MAC address entry stays in the MAC address table until it is cleared. If you

specify 0 for the timeout value, then this entry will not be deleted from the MAC

address table.

Note: If the Aging Time in the Switch Setup screen is set to a

lower value, then it supersedes this setting. See Section 7.5
on page 81.

Port

This field displays a port number.

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