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IxAuthenticate

IxAuthenticate (RFC: 3580, 3748)

IxAuthenticate

Ixia's IxAuthenticate enables comprehensive testing of network switch authentication functions by emulating large numbers of supplicants/users. IxAuthenticate provides data plane performance metrics, including throughput and latency. IxAuthenticate's easy-to-use graphical testing environment enables quick configuration and analysis of test results.

IxAuthenticate utilizes Ixia's Ethernet Load Modules to emulate supplicants and perform data plane traffic generation and analysis. This creates a highly scalable test solution, where increased test capacity requirements are met with the simple addition of more test ports in to the test environment.

Specifications

Supported Authentication Protocols	802.1x, MS Machine Authentication, Layer 2 NAC, Layer 3 NAC (EAPoUDP, LPIP, GWIP)
Authentication Modes	Single-Host, Multi-Host Single-Auth, Multi-Host Multi-Auth
Authentication Types	EAP-MD5, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, PEAP, EAP-FAST Automatic certificate generation using an external Certificate Authority Ability to mix authentication types in a single test
Protocol Control Parameters	Retries, Authentication period, Session Timing, Time to hold after a failure, Time to wait for ID request after EAPOL start, Maximum successive EAPOL start messages, EAP TLS fragment size
Supplicant Parameters	Source MAC address, Source IP address, Username, Password, VLAN ID, Authentication type
NAC Parameters	Application state catalogs, application postures, application posture sequences
EAPoUDP Parameters	Client rate control, Renew timer, Timeout, Cookie Size, Port number, Traffic triggers including ARP, GARP, DHCP and Web Traffic
Traffic Parameters	Source MAC address and Destination MAC address mapping, Traffic generation rate, Frame size, Continuous run or Test Duration Time
Test Control Parameters	Maximum authentication sessions, Setup delay, Establish delay, Tear-down delay, Test mode, Session hold time, Random hold time, Test duration
Session Statistics	Number of attempts, success, EAP failures, EAP timeouts, min, max, and avg. latency (time to successfully authenticate). Statistics categorized based on authentication type (MD5, TLS, PEAP)
EAPOL Frame Statistics	EAPOL frames received, EAPOL frames transmitted, EAPOL start frames transmitted, EAPOL logoff frames transmitted, EAP response/ID frames transmitted, EAP response frames transmitted, EAP response/ID frames received, EAP response frames received, EAP request/ID frames received, EAP request frames received, Invalid EAPOL frames received, EAP length error frames received, EAP alert, EAP successes, EAP failures

Comprehensive and Scalable

IxAuthenticate provides truly comprehensive testing of network switch authentication functions. An extensive set of control and supplicant parameters can be specified to test the authenticator at varying conditions. Using the Ixia Load Modules, several traffic streams can be sent at line-rate. A single chassis can be scaled to emulate tens of thousands of supplicants, providing extreme scalability.

Extensive Statistics

IxAuthenticate provides a rich set of statistics both in real time and in a summary format. In addition to detailed statistics on both the 802.1x protocol messages and data performance, detailed supplicant state machine information is also available. These statistics are available as per port statistics, as well as on an aggregate basis.

Easy-to-Use GUI

IxAuthenticate is easy to use with a Graphical User Interface that has a simple tab-based configuration and results screens. Results are available in real time in a simple tabular format.

Easy Automation

IxAuthenticate can be completely automated using a Tcl API. Configurations can also be exported from the GUI to quickly create automation scripts.

Product Ordering Information

IxAuthenticate
IxAuth-802.1x - IxAuthenticate 802.1x Test Application

This material is for informational purposes only and subject to change without notice. It describes Ixia's present plans to develop and make available to its customers certain products, features and capabilities. Ixia is only obligated to provide those deliverables specifically included in a written agreement between Ixia and the customer.