28| About this Guide AOS-W 6.5.3.x| User Guide
Feature Description
Customizing Authentication
Reply-Message to Captive
Portal Users
AOS-W 6.5.0.0 introduces the support for customizing authentication
Reply-Message to captive portal users in the log-in page for better user
experience. The purpose behind the Reply-Message is to return
appropriate information to the captive portal system.
Device Name as User Name A new parameter is introduced to use the host name of a device as the
user name (instead of the MAC address) of the device when a client is
authenticated by non-802.1X method of authentication.
Disable Console Access A new command is introduced to provide an ability to lock down all
console ports, for example, micro USB, mini USB on the switch to enable
high level security.
Dynamic Bandwidth Switch This feature provides capability for ARM to move to another 80 MHz
channel or downgrade to 40MHz dynamically.
Enabling PortFast A new parameter is introduced to enable PortFast/PortFast on Trunk to
reduce the time taken for wired clients connected to an AP to detect the
link before they send data traffic.
HP Platform interoperability HP TPM based switches can now inter-operate with the Alcatel-Lucent
switches and create the IKE / IPSec tunnels.
IKE fragmentation AOS-W supports the functionality where the non- Alcatel-Lucent devices
can fragment the large IKE_AUTH packets using the standards described
in the RFC 7383 – Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
message fragmentation when the Alcatel-Lucent device acts as a
responder and not as an initiator.
Interference Metrics This enhancement is introduced to resolve issues that occur with
distributed channel/power algorithm, random channel assignment, and
reduction in interference channel.
IPClassification Based Firewall The IP-Classification Based Firewall has been introduced to block traffic
sent or received from those IP addresses classified as malicious. It also
helps in identifying the geographical location of the malicious IP address.
Monitoring Bandwidth Usage This features assists in monitoring bandwidth usage by clients/hosts with
IPv6 addresses, over radius protocol. This information is used for billing
purpose.
Netdestination for AAAA
Records
This features allows Captive Portal whitelist to support IPv6 addresses for
netdestination.
NTPStandalone This feature enables an Alcatel-Lucent switch to act as an NTP server so
that the devices that do not have access to internet can synchronize their
clocks.
Recording Consolidated AP-
Provisioned Information
Starting with AOS-W 6.5.0.0, the switch stores the consolidated AP-
provisioned information for all APs connected to the switch in a .txt file.
This information helps troubleshoot any AP that does not come UP after
an upgrade from AOS-W 6.5.0.0 to a later AOS-W version.
Remote Telnet or SSH Session
from the Switch
Starting with AOS-W 6.5.0.0, an administrator can initiate a remote telnet
or SSH session from the switch to a remote host. The host can be a switch
or a non-Alcatel-Lucent host.
Table 7: New Features in AOS-W 6.5.0.0
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