With phones with this firmware, I'm seeing behavior different from what's documented.
Upon enabling 802.1x, the phone is supposed to prompt for a username (MAC by default) and password. Then store it in NVRAM if it passes authentication.
These phones are not doing that at all. In fact, a phone that was previously working (passing 802.1x) that got upgraded from 6.4 (? iirc) to 6.6.5 still worked. However upon doing a CLEAR on that phone, it doesn't prompt for authentication again and no longer works on the network with no opportunity to input a password.
I can't find any documentation that states that 6.6 changed this, and in fact the docs state that it's still supposed to prompt.
New England Communications
Upon enabling 802.1x, the phone is supposed to prompt for a username (MAC by default) and password. Then store it in NVRAM if it passes authentication.
These phones are not doing that at all. In fact, a phone that was previously working (passing 802.1x) that got upgraded from 6.4 (? iirc) to 6.6.5 still worked. However upon doing a CLEAR on that phone, it doesn't prompt for authentication again and no longer works on the network with no opportunity to input a password.
I can't find any documentation that states that 6.6 changed this, and in fact the docs state that it's still supposed to prompt.
New England Communications