Users Guide

Congure a port to be placed in the VLAN after failing the authentication process as specied number of times using the dot1x auth-
fail-vlan command from INTERFACE mode. Congure the maximum number of authentication attempts by the authenticator using
the keyword
max-attempts with this command.
Example of Conguring Maximum Authentication Attempts
DellEMC(conf-if-Te-1/1/1/1)#dot1x guest-vlan 200
DellEMC(conf-if-Te-1/1/1/1)#show config
!
interface TenGigabitEthernet 1/1/1/1
switchport
dot1x authentication
dot1x guest-vlan 200
no shutdown
DellEMC(conf-if-Te-1/1/1/1)#
DellEMC(conf-if-Te-1/1/1/1)#dot1x auth-fail-vlan 100 max-attempts 5
DellEMC(conf-if-Te-1/1/1/1)#show config
!
interface TenGigabitEthernet 1/1/1/1
switchport
dot1x authentication
dot1x guest-vlan 200
dot1x auth-fail-vlan 100 max-attempts 5
no shutdown
DellEMC(conf-if-Te-1/1/1/1)#
Example of Viewing Congured Authentication
View your conguration using the show config command from INTERFACE mode, as shown in the example in Conguring a Guest
VLAN
or using the show dot1x interface command from EXEC Privilege mode.
802.1x information on Te 1/1/1/1:
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Dot1x Status: Enable
Port Control: FORCE_AUTHORIZED
Port Auth Status: UNAUTHORIZED
Re-Authentication: Disable
Untagged VLAN id: None
Guest VLAN: Disabled
Guest VLAN id: 200
Auth-Fail VLAN: Disabled
Auth-Fail VLAN id: 100
Auth-Fail Max-Attempts: 5
Tx Period: 90 seconds
Quiet Period: 120 seconds
ReAuth Max: 10
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
Conguring Timeouts
If the supplicant or the authentication server is unresponsive, the authenticator terminates the authentication process after 30 seconds by
default. You can congure the amount of time the authenticator waits for a response.
To terminate the authentication process, use the following commands:
• Terminate the authentication process due to an unresponsive supplicant.
INTERFACE mode
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