Multi Devices Authentication

[Mrxlazuardin]

Hi,

Is Summit and/or BlackDiamond support multi devices authentication on single port? I mean that authentication status and policy will be applied exclusively per device, so a device may be authenticated whether the others may be not even they are connected to the same port. I find that way on Brocade (Foundry) device which is MAC address based authentication but I'm no sure Extreme net login has same behavior.

Best regards,

[Bill_Stritzinge]

Hello,

In XOS, like with others with netlogin or policy enabled, each device has to authenticate separately in order to pass traffic. It will not, just by the authentication of one device per port, allow traffic to pass for any other device. A good example of this would be a access point where there are a large # of devices aggregated into a single port.

Bill

[Mrxlazuardin]

Hi Bill,

Do you mean net login? As long as I know, net login using OR policy, so if one device has been authenticated, all other devices connected to same port can forward the traffic through that port even without authentication. What I'm looking is mutually exclusive authentication of devices, so only authenticated device can forward the traffic through that port like authentication on wireless access point. May be some example case will be useful.

Best regards,

[Bill_Stritzinge]

Hello,

Yes, XOS does support multi-supplicant per port as does the example you cite. It does it the same way by the authenticated mac address.

Bill