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Contents
Preface 11
Who Should Use This Guide 11
What You’ll Find in This Guide 12
Typographic Conventions 13
How to Get Help 14
Chapter 1: Accessing the Switch 15
Configuring an IP Interface 16
Using Telnet 17
Using the Browser-Based Interface 18
Configuring BBI access via HTTP 18
Configuring BBI access via HTTPS 18
Using SNMP 20
SNMP v1, v2 20
SNMP v3.0 20
Configuring SNMP Trap Hosts 23
Securing Access to the Switch 25
RADIUS Authentication and Authorization 26
TACACS+ Authentication 30
Secure Shell 34
End User Access Control 36
Chapter 2: Port-based Network Access Control 39
Extensible Authentication Protocol over LAN 40
802.1X authentication process 41
802.1X port states 43
Supported RADIUS attributes 44
Configuration guidelines 45