Reduce The Mab Authentication Time - NETGEAR M4200 Software Administration Manual

3. Select the Password never expires check box.
4. Select the Store password using reversible encryption check box.
5. Click the Apply button.
6. Create a Password Settings Object (PSO) as described at the following Microsoft website:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754461(v=ws.10).aspx.
Use the default setting for all the attributes except for the following setting:
msDS-PasswordComplexityEnabled = FALSE.
7. Apply PSO to the user account that you created in
Microsoft website:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731589(v=ws.10).aspx#BKMK_1.
8. Change the password for the user account that you created in
For the password, use the MAC address of the device for which you want to allow a
connection, and use uppercase letters only.

Reduce the MAB Authentication Time

MAB waits for the expiration of the guest VLAN period before MAB sends a request to the
authentication server with the MAC address as the user name and the MD5 hash as the
password. To reduce the MAB authentication time, decrease the guest VLAN period. The
default period for the guest VLAN period is 90 seconds.
Managed Switches
Step
MAB
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1, as described at the following
Step 1.