User-Based 802.1X Authentication

Syntax


aaa port-access authenticator <port-list> client-limit <1 - 32>

Used after executing aaa port-access authenticator <port-list> (above) to convert authentication from port-based to user-based. Specifies user-based 802.1X authentication and the maximum number of 802.1X-authenticated client sessions allowed on each of the ports in <port-list>. If a port currently has no authenticated client sessions, the next authenticated client session the port accepts determines the untagged VLAN membership to which the port is assigned during the session. If another client session begins later on the same port while an earlier session is active, the later session will be on the same untagged VLAN membership as the earlier session.

NOTE:

The client limit is 256 clients per-port for MAC-auth and Web-auth; the client limit for 802.1X is 32 clients per port. The MAC-auth and Web-auth limit of 256 clients only applies when there are fewer than 16,384 authentication clients on the entire switch. After the limit of 16, 384 clients is reached, no additional authentication clients are allowed on any port for any method.