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Figure 3-1 Typical network application of EAD
EAD Configuration
The EAD configuration includes:
z Configuring the attributes of access users (such as username, user type, and password). For local
authentication, you need to configure these attributes on the switch; for remote authentication, you
need to configure these attributes on the AAA sever.
z Configuring a RADIUS scheme.
z Configuring the IP address of the security policy server.
z Associating the ISP domain with the RADIUS scheme.
EAD is commonly used in RADIUS authentication environment.
This section mainly describes the configuration of security policy server IP address. For other related
configuration, refer to
AAA Overview.
Follow these steps to configure EAD:
To do… Use the command… Remarks
Enter system view
system-view
—
Enter RADIUS scheme
view
radius scheme
radius-scheme-name
—
Configure the RADIUS
server type to extended
server-type extended
Required
Configure the IP address of
a security policy server
security-policy-server
ip-address
Required
Each RADIUS scheme supports
up to eight IP addresses of
security policy servers.
EAD Configuration Example
Network requirements
In Figure 3-2:
z A user is connected to Ethernet 1/0/1 on the switch.
z The user adopts 802.1x client supporting EAD extended function.