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Managing Device Security
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M6100 Web Management User Guide
Reauthentication Enabled This field shows whether reauthentication of the
supplicant for the specified port is allowed. The
possible values are 'true' and 'false'. If the value is
'true' reauthentication will occur. Otherwise,
reauthentication will not be allowed.
Control Direction This displays the control direction for the specified
port. The control direction dictates the degree to
which protocol exchanges take place between
Supplicant and Authenticator. This affects whether
the unauthorized controlled port exerts control over
communication in both directions (disabling both
incoming and outgoing frames) or just in the
incoming direction (disabling only the reception of
incoming frames). This field is not configurable on
some platforms.
Protocol Version This field displays the protocol version associated
with the selected port. The only possible value is 1,
corresponding to the first version of the 802.1x
specification. This field is not configurable.
PAE Capabilities This field displays the port access entity (PAE)
functionality of the selected port. Possible values are
“Authenticator” or “Supplicant”. This field is not
configurable.
Authenticator PAE State This field displays the current state of the
authenticator PAE state machine. Possible values
are:
• “Initialize”
• “Disconnected”
• “Connecting”
• “Authenticating”
• “Authenticated”
• “Aborting”
• “Held”
• “ForceAuthorized”
• “ForceUnauthorized”.
Backend State This field displays the current state of the backend
authentication state machine. Possible values are:
• “Request”
• “Response”
• “Success”
• “Fail”
• “Timeout”
• “Initialize”
• “Idle”
Field Description