SHARIFUL's TECH BLOG

Another day and I am covering wired 802.1X authentication for another vendor. This time it is for HP/Aruba branded procurve switches . In this blog, I will just cover HP/Aruba procurve switches's configuration commands for 802.1x. I will not present a network topology and work with that. If someone is interested about a full network setup and example, I recommend reading  part I ,  part II  and compare the configuration accordingly. Our policy is simple, if a client is authenticated it will be assigned client vlan (vlan 246) from radius server. In all other case, switch port will be assigned to guest vlan (vlan 247) by the switch. Configuration of the switch We need to configure a radius server first - SW(config)# radius-server host 172.16.245.11 key test123 auth-port 1812 acct-port 1813 Then we will assign this radius server to an aaa server group -  SW(config)# aaa server-group radius nps-servers host  172.16.245.11 ...

HP also produces another line of switches which are called procurve switches. After HP's acquisition of Aruba Networks, those procurve switches are marketed as Aruba switches. Some of the Aruba switches support stacking. And it is called: VSF - Virtual Switching Framework. Again, I will not cover the stacking architecture, I will show only how to configure a VSF stacking between two Aruba 2530F series switches. Let's define our network constraints; the example has following characteristics - The stack is consisting of two (2) Aruba 2350F series switches of same model and software version. In each switch two (2) 10G ethernet ports are used for stacking purposes. The stacking ports in the switches can be either cross connected or straight through connected in ring topology. In VSF, how switches are connected with each other does not matter. The switches are connected as the diagram below -  Fig 01 - Aruba VSF with 2 switches VSF allows stacking by using ...