Signamax Managed Hardened PoE Industrial DIN-rail Mount Switch - Manual (Page 46)

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MAC address authentication is port- and MAC address-based authentication used to control
user permissions to access a network. MAC address authentication can be performed without
client-side software. With this type of authentication employed, a switch authenticates a user
upon detecting the MAC address of the user for the first time.
There are three tab pages in this page: Port Conf, Misc and Authenticate Infor.
8.3.1 Port Configuration
This page enables MAC Authentication on a specific port. The lower part shows the port
status list.
Caution: Link-aggregation port cannot be configured MAC authenticaiton.
8.3.2 Misc
MAC authentication process is affected by the following timers:
Offline detect time：Sets the time interval for a switch to test whether a user goes offline.
Upon detecting a user is offline, a switch notifies the RADIUS server of the user to trigger the
RADIUS server to stop the accounting on the user. The value ranges from 1 to 65535, and
the default value is 300 seconds.
Quiet Period：Sets the quiet period for a switch. After a user fails to pass the authentication
performed by a switch, the switch quiets for a specific period (the quiet period) before it
authenticates users again. The value ranges from 1 to 3600, and the default value is 60
seconds.
Server Timeout：Sets the time interval the switch waits for a response, when there is a
connection request from the authentication server to the client. The value ranges from 1 to
65535, and the default value is 100 seconds.