MAC Address Authentication

In the actual network, besides lots of end users, there may be some network terminals (such as network printer). The terminals do not carry or cannot install the 802.1X authentication client software and can use the free-client authentication mode to access the network. The authentication method does not need the user to install any 802.1X authentication client software. After the authentication device detects the MAC address of the user for the first time, the authentication device uses the configured user name and password or the user MAC address as the user name and password to send to the authentication server for authentication.

The user name and password format used by the MAC address authentication has two cases:

The MAC address serves as user name and password: Use the MAC address of the authenticated user as the user name and password;

Fixed user name and password: Use the configured user name and password on the authentication device.