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DGS-1510 Series Gigabit Ethernet SmartPro Switch CLI Reference Guide
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Interface Configuration Mode.
Command Default Level
Level: 12.
Usage Guideline
This command is only available for physical port interface configuration. It can be used to enable MAC
authentication on the specified interface.
In addition, MAC authentication has the following limitations:
• The MAC authentication port cannot be enabled when port security is enabled on the port.
• The MAC authentication port cannot be enabled when IP-MAC-Port-Binding is enabled on the
port.
• The MAC authentication port cannot be enabled on a link aggregation port.
Example
This example shows how to enable MAC authentication on interface eth1/0/1.
Switch# configure terminal
Switch(config)# interface eth1/0/1
Switch(config-if)# mac-auth enable
Switch(config-if)#
43-3 mac-auth password
This command is used to configure the password of authentication for local and RADIUS authentication.
Use the no form of this command to reset the password to the default setting.
mac-auth password [0 | 7] STRING
no mac-auth password
Parameters
0
(Optional) Specifies the password in the clear text form. If neither 0 nor
7 are specified, the default form will be clear text.
7
(Optional) Specifies the password in the encrypted form. If neither 0
nor 7 are specified, the default form will be clear text.
password STRING
Specifies to set the password for MAC authentication. If in the clear
text form, the length of the string cannot be over 16 characters.
Default
By default, the password is the client’s MAC address.
Command Mode
Global Configuration Mode.
Command Default Level
Level: 12.
Usage Guideline
This command is used to configure the password used in the authentication of MAC address users. If the
command is not configured, the password for authentication of the MAC address user is formatted based