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New Features

Dynamic MAB session handling

Dynamic MAB session handling

You can now configure in the CLI how long MAC authentication bypass (MAB) sessions are kept:

  • In static mode, MAB sessions are kept until the link goes down or the MAB sessions are manually deleted with the CLI. Static mode is the default.

  • In dynamic mode, MAB sessions are treated the same way as dynamically learned MAC addresses.

    In dynamic mode, you specify how long MAB sessions are kept with the set mac-aging-interval <10-1,000,000 seconds> command (under config switch-controller global). By default, the mac-aging-interval is set to 300 seconds.

Whenever you change the mac-aging-interval or mab-entry-as setting, all MAB sessions are deleted, but the EAP sessions are unchanged.

This feature is supported on all FortiSwitch models.

To configure how long MAB sessions are kept:

config switch-controller 802-1X-settings

set mab-entry-as {dynamic | static}

end

Dynamic MAB session handling

Dynamic MAB session handling

You can now configure in the CLI how long MAC authentication bypass (MAB) sessions are kept:

  • In static mode, MAB sessions are kept until the link goes down or the MAB sessions are manually deleted with the CLI. Static mode is the default.

  • In dynamic mode, MAB sessions are treated the same way as dynamically learned MAC addresses.

    In dynamic mode, you specify how long MAB sessions are kept with the set mac-aging-interval <10-1,000,000 seconds> command (under config switch-controller global). By default, the mac-aging-interval is set to 300 seconds.

Whenever you change the mac-aging-interval or mab-entry-as setting, all MAB sessions are deleted, but the EAP sessions are unchanged.

This feature is supported on all FortiSwitch models.

To configure how long MAB sessions are kept:

config switch-controller 802-1X-settings

set mab-entry-as {dynamic | static}

end