ProCurve Series 2300 and 2500 Switches Release Notes

Enhancements in Release F.05.xx

Configuring Port-Based Access Control (802.1x)

3. Configure the 802.1x Authentication Method

This task specifies how the switch will authenticate the credentials provided by a supplicant

connected to a switch port configured as an 802.1x authenticator.

For example, to enable the switch to perform 802.1x authentication using one or more EAP-capable

RADIUS servers:

Figure 9. Example of 802.1x (Port-Access) Authentication

Syntax: aaa authentication port-access < local | eap-radius | chap-radius >

Determines the type of RADIUS authentication to use.

local Use the switch’s local username and password for

supplicant authentication.

eap-radius Use EAP-RADIUS authentication. (Refer to the

documentation for your RADIUS server.)

chap-radius Use CHAP-RADIUS (MD-5) authentication.

(Refer to the documentation for your RADIUS server appli-

cation.)

802.1x (Port-Access)

configured for EAP-

RADIUS authentication.

Configuration command for

EAP-RADIUS

authentication.