Dear Alan, thanks for your suggestion however the setup is rather small at 50 users and the switch is not managable..Iam a CCNA "nothing special about that" and I wish I had the means to apply the setup on managable switch using port security however I still care about the accounting features of radius even if the managable switch was a feasible solution.

On 11/2/06, Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> wrote:
"Ali Jawad" <alijawad1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to authenicate based on mac address and i do not want to use pppoe
> anymore..so everybody plugging in a network cable into my switch will have
> immediate internet access only if I have registered his mac address for him

  See the switch documentation for how to do port-based authentication
using MAC addresses.

  Alan DeKok.
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