Specifications

Authentication Commands
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• Global 802.1X Parameters – Displays the global port access control
parameters that can be configured for this switch as described in the
preceding pages, including reauth-enabled (page 3-63), reauth-period
(page 3-63), quiet-period (page 3-63), tx-period (page 3-64), and max-req
(page 3-60). It also displays the following global parameters which are set
to a fixed value, including the following items:
- supp-timeout – Supplicant timeout.
- server-timeout – Server timeout.
- reauth-max – Maximum number of reauthentication attempts.
• 802.1X Port Summary – Displays the port access control parameters for
each interface, including the following items:
- Status – Administrative state for port access control.
- Mode – Dot1x port control mode (page 3-61).
- Authorized – Authorization status (yes or n/a - not authorized).
• 802.1X Port Details – Displays detailed port access control settings for each
interface as described in the preceding pages, including administrative
status for port access control, Max request (page 3-60), Quiet period (page
3-63), Reauth period (page 3-63), Tx period (page 3-64), and Port-control
(page 3-61). It also displays the following information:
- Status – Authorization status (authorized or unauthorized).
- Supplicant – MAC address of authorized client.
• Authenticator State Machine
- State – Current state (including initialize, disconnected,
connecting, authenticating, authenticated, aborting,
held, force_authorized, force_unauthorized).
- Reauth Count – Number of times connecting state is re-entered.
• Backend State Machine
- State – Current state (including request, response,
success, fail, timeout, idle, initialize).
- Request Count – Number of EAP Request packets sent to the
Supplicant without receiving a response.
- Identifier(Server) – Identifier carried in the most recent EAP Success,
Failure or Request packet received from the
Authentication Server.
• Reauthentication State Machine
- State – Current state (including initialize, reauthenticate).