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5. Click Confirm to accept the change.

A dialog box pops up to prompt that the settings will take effect after reboot.

6. Click OK to reboot the IP phone.

IEEE 802.1X authentication is an IEEE standard for Port-based Network Access Control

(PNAC), part of the IEEE 802.1 group of networking protocols. It offers an authentication

mechanism for devices to connect to a LAN or WLAN. The 802.1X authentication involves

three parties: a supplicant, an authenticator and an authentication server. The

supplicant is the IP phone that wishes to attach to the LAN or WLAN. With 802.1X

port-based authentication, the IP phone provides credentials, such as user name and

password, for the authenticator, and then the authenticator forwards the credentials to

the authentication server for verification. If the authentication server determines the

credentials are valid, the IP phone is allowed to access resources located on the

protected side of the network.

IP phones support protocols EAP-MD5, EAP-TLS, PEAP-MSCHAPv2 and

EAP-TTLS/EAP-MSCHAPv2 for 802.1X authentication.

For more information on 802.1X authentication, refer to

Yealink 802.1X Authentication

available online:

http://www.yealink.com/DocumentDownload.aspx?CateId=142&flag=142.

Procedure

802.1X authentication can be configured using the configuration files or locally.

Configuration File

y000000000037.cfg

Configure the 802.1X

authentication.

Parameters:

network.802_1x.mode

network.802_1x.identity

network.802_1x.md5_password

network.802_1x.root_cert_url

network.802_1x.client_cert_url

Local

Web User Interface

Configure the 802.1X

authentication.

Navigate to:

http://<phoneIPAddress>/servl

et?p=network-adv&q=load

Phone User Interface

Configure the 802.1X

authentication.