Hi everyone, I’m starting to deploy some CRS326 with dot1x and mab authentication and I realized when I connect a dumb switch (with some hosts on it) to one port configured with dot1x/mab auth, only the first host is authenticated so the others hosts don’t get authenticated and they enter the netwo…

I don’t this is even possible. While I never used it myself, from what I know Dot1x uses MAC address to authenticate clients. This means that your MT sees traffic from all clients connected to a port under a MAC of the dumb switch. The moment a single client behind that switch passes authentication …

I don’t this is even possible. While I never used it myself, from what I know Dot1x uses MAC address to authenticate clients. This means that your MT sees traffic from all clients connected to a port under a MAC of the dumb switch. The moment a single client behind that switch passes authenticatio…

[Feature Request] Dot1x Multiple Host Auth in a single port

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5nik January 26, 2022, 11:47am 4

I already asked this feature in list here.

You wrong. It is possible and many smart and managed switches have this possibility. Dumb switch hasn’t MAC.