Additional Information For Configuring The Radius Server To Support Mac Authentication - HP ProCurve 2600-PWR Series Manual

Web and MAC Authentication for the Series 2600/2600-PWR and 2800 Switches
General Setup Procedure for Web/MAC Authentication
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Additional Information for Configuring the RADIUS
Server To Support MAC Authentication
On the RADIUS server, configure the client device authentication in the same
way that you would any other client, except:
Configure the client device's (hexadecimal) MAC address as both
username and password. Be careful to configure the switch to use the
same format that the RADIUS server uses. Otherwise, the server will
deny access. The switch provides four format options:
aabbccddeeff (the default format)
aabbcc-ddeeff
aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff
aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
Letters in MAC addresses must be in lowercase.
If the device is a switch or other VLAN-capable device, use the base
MAC address assigned to the device, and not the MAC address
assigned to the VLAN through which the device communicates with
the authenticator switch. Note that each switch covered by this guide
applies a single MAC address to all VLANs configured in the switch.
Thus, for a given switch, the MAC address is the same for all VLANs
configured on the switch. (Refer to the chapter titled "Static Virtual
LANs (VLANs)" in the Advanced Traffic Management Guide for your
switch.)