Configuration Guide (Supporting R2.2.0.0) Owner's manual
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802.1X Port Authentication
• Quiet Period – Time a port waits after Max Request Count is exceeded before attempting
to acquire a new client (see “dot1x timeout quiet-period” on page 178).
• TX Period – Time a port waits during authentication session before re-transmitting EAP
packet (see “dot1x timeout tx-period,”).
• Supplicant Timeout – Supplicant timeout.
• Server Timeout – Server timeout. A RADIUS server must be set before the correct
operational value of 10 seconds will be displayed in this field.
• Reauth Max Retries – Maximum number of reauthentication attempts.
• Max Request – Maximum number of times a port will retransmit an EAP request/identity
packet to the client before it times out the authentication session (see “dot1x max-req” on
page 176).
• Operation Mode– Shows if single or multiple hosts (clients) can connect to an
802.1X-authorized port.
• Port Control–Shows the dot1x mode on a port as auto, force-authorized, or
force-unauthorized (see “dot1x port-control” on page 177).
• Intrusion Action– Shows the port response to intrusion when authentication fails (see
“dot1x intrusion-action” on page 175).
• 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.
• Current Identifier– The integer (0-255) used by the Authenticator to identify the current
authentication session.
• 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).
Example
Console#show dot1x
Global 802.1X Parameters
System Auth Control : Enabled
Authenticator Parameters:
EAPOL Pass Through : Disabled
Supplicant Parameters:
Identity Profile Username : steve
802.1X Port Summary