Specifying The Authentication-Failure Action; Radius Server - Dell PowerConnect B-RX Configuration Manual

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Specifying the format of the MAC addresses sent to the

RADIUS server

When multi-device port authentication is configured, the device authenticates MAC addresses by
sending username and password information to a RADIUS server. The username and password is
the MAC address itself; that is, the device uses the MAC address for both the username and the
password in the request sent to the RADIUS server.
By default, the MAC address is sent to the RADIUS server in the format xxxxxxxxxxxx. You can
optionally configure the device to send the MAC address to the RADIUS server in the format
xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx, or the format xxxx.xxxx.xxxx. To do this, enter a command such as the following.
BigIron RX(config)# mac-authentication auth-passwd-format xxxx.xxxx.xxxx
Syntax: [no] mac-authentication auth-passwd-format xxxx.xxxx.xxxx | xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx | xxxxxxxxxxxx

Specifying the authentication-failure action

When RADIUS authentication for a MAC address fails, you can configure the device to perform one
of two actions:
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To configure the device to move the port to a restricted VLAN when multi-device port authentication
fails, enter commands such as the following.
BigIron RX(config)# interface e 3/1
BigIron RX(config-if-e100-3/1)# mac-authentication auth-fail-action restrict-vlan
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Syntax: [no] mac-authentication auth-fail-action restrict-vlan [<vlan-id>]
If the ID for the restricted VLAN is not specified at the interface level, the global restricted VLAN ID
applies for the interface.
To specify the VLAN ID of the restricted VLAN globally, enter the following command.
BigIron RX(config)# mac-authentication auth-fail-vlan-id 200
Syntax: [no] mac-authentication auth-fail-vlan-id <vlan-id>
The command above applies globally to all MAC-authentication-enabled interfaces.
Note that the restricted VLAN must already exist on the device. You cannot configure the restricted
VLAN to be a non-existent VLAN.
To configure the device to drop traffic from non-authenticated MAC addresses in hardware, enter
commands such as the following.
BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide
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FilterId (11) – RFC 2865
Vendor-Specific Attributes (26) – RFC 2865
Tunnel-Type (64) – RFC 2868
Tunnel-Medium-Type (65) – RFC 2868
EAP Message (79) – RFC 2579
Tunnel-Private-Group-Id (81) – RFC 2868
Drop traffic from the MAC address in hardware (the default)
Move the port on which the traffic was received to a restricted VLAN
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