HP A6600 Configuration Manual page 121

# Enable MAC authentication globally.
[Router] mac-authentication
# Enable MAC authentication on port GigabitEthernet 1/0/1.
[Router] mac-authentication interface gigabitethernet 1/0/1
# Specify the ISP domain for MAC authentication.
[Router] mac-authentication domain aabbcc.net
# Set the MAC authentication timers.
[Router] mac-authentication timer offline-detect 180
[Router] mac-authentication timer quiet 180
# Configure MAC authentication to use MAC-based accounts. The MAC address usernames and
passwords are hyphenated and in lowercase.
[Router] mac-authentication user-name-format mac-address with-hyphen lowercase
Verify the configuration
2.
# Display MAC authentication settings and statistics.
<Router> display mac-authentication
MAC address authentication is enabled.
User name format is MAC address in lowercase, like xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
Fixed username:mac
Fixed password:not configured
Offline detect period is 180s
Quiet period is 180s.
Server response timeout value is 100s
The max allowed user number is 1024 per slot
Current user number amounts to 1
Current domain is aabbcc.net
Silent Mac User info:
MAC Addr
Gigabitethernet1/0/1 is link-up
MAC address authentication is enabled
Authenticate success: 1, failed: 0
Max number of on-line users is 256
Current online user number is 1
MAC Addr
00e0-fc12-3456
# After the user passes authentication, use display connection to display the online user information.
<Router> display connection
Index=29 ,Username=00-e0-fc-12-34-56@aabbcc.net
MAC=00e0-fc12-3456
IP=N/A
IPv6=N/A
Total 1 connection(s) matched.
From Port
Authenticate state
MAC_AUTHENTICATOR_SUCCESS
109
Port Index
Auth Index
29