Administrator Guide

Supplicant Timeout: 15 seconds

Server Timeout: 15 seconds

Re-Auth Interval: 7200 seconds

Max-EAP-Req: 10

Auth Type: SINGLE_HOST

Auth PAE State: Initialize

Backend State: Initialize

Enter the tasks the user should do after finishing this task (optional).

Multi-Host Authentication

By default, 802.1x assumes that a single end user is connected to a single authenticator port in a one-to-one mode of authentication called

single-host mode. If multiple end users are connected to the same port, a many-to-one configuration, only the first end user to respond to

the identity request is authenticated. Subsequent responses are ignored, and a system log is generated to indicate reception of

unexpected 802.1x frames. When a port is authorized, the authenticated supplicant MAC address is associated with the port, and traffic

from any other source MACs is dropped.

Figure 8. Single-Host Authentication Mode

When multiple end users are connected to a single authenticator port, single-host mode authentication does not authenticate all end

users, and all but one are denied access to the network. For these cases, the Dell Networking OS supports multi-host mode

authentication.

802.1X