Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
Hi,
Trying to find out whether any HP products support PoD (Packet of Disconnect). I've got a HP2626 ProCurve switch and one of the new HP 530 WAPs (released last august).
If you don't have a reason to believe they *do* i.e. docs saying so, they almost certainly don't.
Seems strange that their enterprise products don't support something as basic as this, specially when the RFC was published in 2003.
It's annoying but it's not strange. A lot of vendors don't even bother with full and complete radius auth/acct support - why go for PoD? For wired switches, you might try setting the ifMauAutoNegRestart (described in RFC 2668) to "1" which on quite a few switches will drop the physical link and as a byproduct cause authentication to restart (which, if you've now banned this person, is a good thing). This has the dual advantage that it causes windows boxes to re-lease their IPs by DHCP, which is valuable if you've moved them into a walled garden network.