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Configuring MAC Address Validation for Subscriber Interfaces

This topic describes how to configure MAC address validation for subscriber interfaces in dynamic profiles.

The subscriber interfaces can be statically created and associated with a dynamic profile (for example, VLAN interfaces) or dynamically created in the dynamic profile (such as demux interfaces).

By default, MAC address validation is disabled.

This topic contains the following sections:

Configuring MAC Address Validation for Static Subscriber Interfaces

This topic describes how to configure MAC address validation for static subscriber interfaces in dynamic profiles.

Before you begin:

To configure MAC address validation on static subscriber interfaces:

  1. Configure the static VLAN interface.
  2. Configure the type of MAC address validation for the interface.
    • To configure loose validation:

    • To configure strict validation:

For example, to configure loose validation on interface fe-0/0/0.0, configure the following:

After you configure MAC address validation, associate the static VLAN interface with the dynamic profile.

Configuring MAC Address Validation for Dynamic Subscriber Interfaces

This topic describes how to configure MAC address validation for subscriber interfaces created on demux interfaces in dynamic profiles.

When you configure MAC address validation for demux interfaces in a dynamic profile and specify either loose or strict validation, the resulting behavior is always loose validation. To enable strict behavior for a dynamic IP demux interface, besides configuring either loose or strict mode on the IP demux interface, you must also configure strict validation on the underlying interface.

Before you begin:

To configure loose MAC address validation for a dynamic subscriber interface:

  • Configure loose validation for the demux interface.

    For loose validation, you do not need to configure MAC address validation on the underlying interface.

To configure strict MAC address validation for a dynamic subscriber interface:

  1. Configure validation for the demux interface.
    Note:

    Remember, although you must configure validation on the IP demux interface, it does not matter which mode you specify because the behavior is always loose.

  2. Configure strict validation for the underlying interface.

    The underlying interface in this case is statically configured—for example, ge-1/0/0.1—and assigned to a DHCP configuration group that is associated with the dynamic profile. In a more complicated configuration, the underlying interface itself can be configured by a dynamic profile; in that case the validation is configured in the profile that creates the underlying interface.