General Port; Working With Port-Based Vlans; Working With 802.1X On Wired Ethernet Ports - Ruckus Wireless SmartCell 8800-S User Manual

General Port

The General Port can be configured to support multiple tagged VLANs and one
untagged VLAN. As Trunk Ports by definition are members of all VLANs, the General
Port is the only port type for which membership is user configurable for multiple
VLANs.

Working with Port-Based VLANs

The AP provides options for segmenting all incoming traffic (both wireless and wired
Ethernet traffic) into specific VLANs. There are two ways to segment incoming traffic
into VLANs:
• Each of the wireless interfaces (SSIDs) can be configured with a specific Access
VLAN ID: (Configuration > Wireless > Wireless # (WLAN number) > Access
VLAN).
• Each of the LAN ports can be configured with an Untag VLAN ID (Configuration
> Ethernet Ports > VLAN > Untag ID).
For Ethernet ports, the behavior of the Untag VLAN ID depends on the Port Type
selected. If the port is configured as a Trunk port, it includes all VLANs (1-4094) in
its membership. The VLAN Untag ID field (default = 1) can be used to redefine the
Native VLAN for the port.
If the Ethernet port is configured as an Access Port, it can be configured with only
one Untag VLAN ID and its membership includes only that one VLAN.
If the Ethernet port is configured as a General Port, it can be configured to include
multiple VLANs in its membership and one Untag VLAN.

Working with 802.1X on Wired Ethernet Ports

802.1X authentication consists of the following three components:
• Supplicant: The supplicant sends access request messages along with creden-
tials, such as user name/password or digital certificate, to an authenticator,
which forwards the credentials to the authentication server for verification.
• Authenticator: The authenticator challenges the identity of the supplicant, then
passes its credentials to the AAA server. If the credentials are accepted the
supplicant is allowed access.
• Authentication Server (AAA Server): The AAA server verifies the supplicant's
credentials and permits or rejects its request for access.
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Configuring Ethernet Ports
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