Connectivity Guide

Failure quiet period
If the supplicant fails the authentication process, the authenticator sends another Request Identity frame after 30 seconds by default. The
quiet period is a transmit interval time after a failed authentication.
The Request Identity Retransmit interval is for an unresponsive supplicant. You can congure the interval for a maximum of 10 times for an
unresponsive supplicant.
1 Congure the amount of time that the authenticator waits to retransmit a Request Identity frame after a failed authentication in
INTERFACE mode from 1 to 65535, default 60 seconds.
dot1x timeout quiet-period seconds
Congure and verify port authentication
OS10(conf-range-eth1/1/7-1/1/8)# dot1x timeout quiet-period 120
OS10(conf-range-eth1/1/7-1/1/8)# do show dot1x interface ethernet 1/1/7
802.1x information on ethernet1/1/7
-------------------------------------
Dot1x Status: Enable
Port Control: AUTO
Port Auth Status: UNAUTHORIZED
Re-Authentication: Enable
Tx Period: 120 seconds
Quiet Period: 120 seconds
Supplicant Timeout: 30 seconds
Server Timeout: 30 seconds
Re-Auth Interval: 3600 seconds
Max-EAP-Req: 5
Host Mode: MULTI_HOST
Auth PAE State: Initialize
Backend State: Idle
View interface running conguration
OS10(conf-range-eth1/1/7-1/1/8)# do show running-configuration interface
...
!
interface ethernet1/1/7
no shutdown
dot1x max-req 5
dot1x port-control auto
dot1x re-authentication
dot1x timeout quiet-period 120
dot1x timeout tx-period 120
!
interface ethernet1/1/8
no shutdown
dot1x max-req 5
dot1x port-control auto
dot1x re-authentication
dot1x timeout quiet-period 120
dot1x timeout tx-period 120
...
Port control mode
802.1X requires a port to be in one of three states — force-authorized, force-unauthorized, or auto.
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