H3C S7500E Series Ethernet Switches Operation Manual

Operation Manual – 802.1x - MAC Authentication

H3C S7500E Series Ethernet Switches Chapter 2 EAD Fast Deployment Configuration

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II. Network diagram

Host Switch

Eth2/0/1

Free IP:

WEB server

192.168.1.3/24

Internet

192.168.1.10/24

192.168.1.1/24

192.168.1.0/24

Figure 2-1 Network diagram for EAD fast deployment

III. Configuration procedure

1) Configure the WEB server

Before using the EAD fast deployment function, you need to configure the WEB server

to provide the download service of 802.1x client software.

2) Configure the device to support EAD fast deployment

# Configure the IP addresses of the interfaces (omitted).

# Configure the free IP.

<Sysname> system-view

[Sysname] dot1x free-ip 192.168.1.0 24

# Configure the redirect URL for client software download.

[Sysname] dot1x url http://192.168.1.3

# Enable 802.1x globally.

[Sysname] dot1x

# Enable 802.1x on the port.

[Sysname] interface ethernet 2/0/1

[Sysname -Ethernet2/0/1] dot1x

3) Verify your configuration

# Use the ping command to ping an IP address within the network segment specified

by free IP to check that the user can access that segment before passing 802.1x

authentication.

C:\>ping 192.168.1.3

Pinging 192.168.1.3 with 32 bytes of data: