Enterasys Networks 1H582-xx User Manual

This global variable can be enabled or disabled using the set macauthentication command as 
described in 

. 

If enabled, then

MAC authentication is active on those ports individually enabled using the set 
macauthentication port command as described in 

. 

All session and statistic information is reset to defaults. 

Any MAC addresses currently locked to ports are unlocked. 

If disabled, then 

MAC authentication stops for all ports. 

All active sessions are terminated. 

All ports currently authenticated using 802.1X, are unaffected. 

Any 802.1X ports, which were set to forced-unauth, revert back to discarding all frames 
regardless of the MAC authentication state.

If you configure an authentication method that requires communication with a RADIUS server, you 
can use the RADIUS Filter-ID attribute to dynamically assign a policy profile and/or management 
level to authenticating users and/or devices.

The RADIUS Filter-ID attribute is simply a string that is formatted in the RADIUS Access-Accept 
packet sent back from the RADIUS server to the switch during the authentication process. 

Each user can be configured in the RADIUS server database with a RADIUS Filter-ID attribute that 
specifies the name of the policy profile and/or management level the user should be assigned upon 
successful authentication.  During the authentication process, when the RADIUS server returns a 
RADIUS Access-Accept message that includes a Filter-ID matching a policy profile name 
configured on the switch, the switch then dynamically applies the policy profile to the physical port 
the user/device is authenticating on. 

Enterasys Networks supports two Filter-ID formats — “decorated” and “undecorated.” The 
decorated format has three forms: