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370 | MAC-based Authentication Dell PowerConnect ArubaOS 5.0 | User Guide
Using the WebUI to configure a MAC authentication profile
1. Navigate to the Configuration > Security > Authentication > L2 Authentication page.
2. Select MAC Authentication Profile.
3. Enter a profile name and click Add.
4. Select the profile name to display configurable parameters.
5. Configure the parameters, as described in Table 67.
6. Click Apply.
Using the CLI to configure a MAC authentication profile
aaa authentication mac <profile>
case {lower|upper}
delimiter {colon|dash|none}
max-authentication-failures <number>
Configuring Clients
You can create entries in the controller’s internal database that can be used to authenticate client MAC
addresses. The internal database contains a list of clients along with the password and default role for each client.
To configure entries in the internal database for MAC authentication, you enter the MAC address for both the
user name and password for each client.
Using the WebUI to configure clients in the internal database
1. Navigate to the Configuration > Security > Authentication > Servers > page.
2. Select Internal DB.
3. Click Add User in the Users section. The user configuration page displays.
4. For User Name and Password, enter the MAC address for the client. Use the format specified by the
Delimiter parameter in the MAC Authentication profile. For example, if the MAC Authentication profile
specifies the default delimiter (none), enter MAC addresses in the format xxxxxxxxxxxx.
5. Click Enabled to activate this entry on creation.
6. Click Apply to apply the configuration.
Max Authentication failures Number of times a station can fail to authenticate before it is blacklisted. A value of 0
disables blacklisting.
Default: 0
Table 67 MAC Authentication Profile Configuration Parameters (Continued)
Parameter Description
Note: You must enter the MAC address using the delimiter format configured in the MAC authentication profile. The default
delimiter is none, which means that MAC addresses should be in the format xxxxxxxxxxxx. If you specify colons for the delimiter,
you can enter MAC addresses in the format xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx.
Note: The configuration does not take effect until you perform this step.