Netgear M4300-12X12F (XSM4324S) - Stackable Managed Switch with 24x10G including 12x10GBASE-T and 12xSFP+ Layer 3 Administrator's Guide

MAB

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Managed Switches

Select the Password never expires check box.

Select the Store password using reversible encryption check box.

Click the Apply button.

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.

Apply PSO to the user account that you created in

Step 1

, as described at the following

Microsoft website:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731589(v=ws.10).aspx#BKMK_1

Change the password for the user account that you created in

Step 1

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.