Cisco Cisco NAC Appliance 4.1.0

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Cisco NAC Appliance - Clean Access Server Installation and Administration Guide

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Chapter 3 Configuring Layer 3 Out-of-Band (L3 OOB)

Overview

Layer 3 OOB: Configuration

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On Login Page, there is a new checkbox and dropdown menu “Use ActiveX or Java Applet to detect
client MAC address when Clean Access Server cannot detect the MAC address” with the following
options:

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ActiveX Only

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Java Applet Only

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ActiveX Preferred

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Java Applet Preferred

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ActiveX on IE, Java Applet on non-IE Browser

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For “Preferred” options, the preferred option is loaded first; if it fails, the other option is loaded

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ActiveX is fastest with IE

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ActiveX is preferred and faster than applet

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ActiveX supported on IE 6.0 on Windows XP/2000

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Java Applet supported on most browsers

Note

With release 4.1, DHCP IP addresses can be refreshed for client machines using the 4.1.0.0+ Clean
Access Agent, or ActiveX Control/Java Applet without requiring port bouncing after authentication and
posture assessment. See “ Enable Web Client for Login Page” in the Cisco NAC Appliance - Clean
Access Manager Installation and Administration Guide for further details.