Blacklisting a Client
This command will blacklist a client and restrict it from connecting to your network. The show user-table lists
the client connected on your network before processing the request to blacklist the client.
Figure 361: Blacklisting a Client—request and response
john@linux:/home/john/tools/xml-api# ./auth -i 10.10.10.248 10.11.12.13 blacklist $abcd$1234$
This commands sends the following information in the request to the controller:
l Client IP address: 10.10.10.248
l Authentication server IP address: 10.11.12.13
l Authentication command: blacklist
l Key to validate authentication request: $abcd$1234$
l Key is sent in cleartext format
Response from the controller
server=10.11.12.13, command=blacklist, version=1.0, secret=$abcd$1234$sessid=
Message authentication is cleartext ($abcd$1234$)
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:29:11 GMT
Server:
Content-Length: 56
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/xml
<authresponse>
<status>Ok</status>
<code>0</code>
</authresponse>
The show user-table command does not list the blacklisted client. You can use the show ap blacklist-clients
command on your controller to view the list of blacklisted clients
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