Concept Guide

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denying access to all other devices. Users may be required to authenticate themselves using other methods,
depending upon the network privileges.
Example
The following example configures a MAC authentication profile to blacklist client devices that fail to
authenticate.
aaa authentication mac mac-blacklist
max-authentication-failures 3
Command History
Release Modification
ArubaOS 3.0 Command introduced
ArubaOS 3.3.1.8 The max-authentication-failures parameter was allowed in the base
operating system. In earlier versions of ArubaOS, the max-authentication-
failures parameter required the Wireless Intrusion Protection license
ArubaOS 6.3
The reauthentication and timer reauth period parameters were
introduced.
Command Information
Platforms Licensing Command Mode
All platforms Base operating system Config mode on master controllers