Operation Manual – MAC Address Authentication
H3C S3100 Series Ethernet Switches
Chapter 1 MAC Authentication Configuration
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1.4.2 Configuring a Guest VLAN
Note:
Different from Guest VLANs described in the
802.1x and System-Guard manual
, Guest
VLANs mentioned in this section refer to Guests VLANs dedicated to MAC address
authentication.
After completing configuration tasks in
1.3 Configuring Basic MAC Authentication
Functions
for a switch, this switch can authenticate access users according to their
MAC addresses or according to fixed user names and passwords. The switch will not
learn MAC addresses of the clients failing in the authentication into its local MAC
address table, thus prevent illegal users from accessing the network.
In some cases, if the clients failing in the authentication are required to access some
restricted resources in the network (such as the virus library update server), you can
use the Guest VLAN.
You can configure a Guest VLAN for each port of the switch. When a client connected
to a port fails in MAC address authentication, this port will be added into the Guest
VLAN automatically. The MAC address of this client will also be learned into the MAC
address table of the Guest VLAN, and thus the user can access the network resources
of the Guest VLAN.
After a port is added to a Guest VLAN, the switch will re-authenticate the first access
user of this port (namely, the first user whose unicast MAC address is learned by the
switch) periodically. If this user passes the re-authentication, this port will exit the Guest
VLAN, and thus the user can access the network normally.