Security: 802.1X Authentication
Overview
360 Cisco 350, 350X and 550X Series Managed Switches, Firmware Release 2.4, ver 0.4
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Mode Behavior
The following table describes how authenticated and non-authenticated traffic is handled in 
various situations.
Unauthenticated Traffic Authenticated Traffic
With Guest VLAN Without Guest VLAN With Radius VLAN Without Radius VLAN
Untagged Tagged Untagged Tagged Untagged Tagged Untagged Tagged
Single-
host
Frames are 
re-mapped to 
the guest 
VLAN
Frames 
are 
dropped 
unless 
they 
belong to 
the guest 
VLAN or 
to the 
unauthent
icated 
VLANs
Frames are 
dropped 
Frames 
are 
dropped 
unless 
they 
belong to 
the 
unauthent
icated 
VLANs
Frames are 
re-mapped to 
the RADIUS 
assigned 
VLAN
Frames 
are 
dropped 
unless 
they 
belong to 
the 
RADIUS 
VLAN or 
to the 
unauthent
icated 
VLANs
Frames are 
bridged based 
on the static 
VLAN 
configuration
Frames 
are 
bridged 
based on 
the static 
VLAN 
configurat
ion
Multi-host
Frames are 
re-mapped to 
the guest 
VLAN
Frames 
are 
dropped 
unless 
they 
belongs to 
the guest 
VLAN or 
to the 
unauthent
icated 
VLANs
Frames are 
dropped 
Frames 
are 
dropped 
unless 
they 
belongs 
to the 
unauthent
icated 
VLANs
Frames are 
re-mapped to 
the Radius 
assigned 
VLAN
Frames 
are 
dropped 
unless 
they 
belongs 
to the 
Radius 
VLAN or 
to the 
unauthent
icated 
VLANs
Frames are 
bridged based 
on the static 
VLAN 
configuration
Frames 
are 
bridged 
based on 
the static 
VLAN 
configurat
ion
Lite multi-
sessions
N/S N/S Frames are 
dropped
Frames 
are 
dropped 
unless 
they 
belongs 
to the 
unauthent
icated 
VLANs
N/S N/S Frames are 
bridged based 
on the static 
VLAN 
configuration
Frames 
are 
bridged 
based on 
the static 
VLAN 
configurat
ion