3Com 10014298 Enabling/Disabling Quiet-Period Timer, Displaying and Debugging, Display and Debug

	IEEE 802.1x 213
Table 226 Configure Timers
Operation	Command
Restore default settings of the timers	undo dot1x timer { quiet-period
	tx-period supp-timeout
	server-timeout }

By default, the quiet-period-valueis 60 seconds, the tx-period-valueis 30 seconds, the supp-timeout-valueis 30 seconds, the server-timeout-valueis 100 seconds. For more detailed information on the dot1x timer command, see the Switch 7750 Command Reference Guide.

Enabling/Disabling Quiet-Period Timer

You can use the following commands to enable/disable a quiet-period timer of the Switch 7750. If an 802.1x user has not passed authentication, the Authenticator will keep quiet (specified by quiet-period) before launching the authentication again. During the quiet period, the Authenticator does not do anything related to 802.1x authentication.

Perform the following configuration in system view.

Table 227 Enable/Disable a Quiet-Period Timer

Operation	Command
Enable a quiet-period timer.	dot1x quiet-period
Disable a quiet-period timer	undo dot1x quiet-period

Displaying and Debugging 802.1x

Execute the display command in all views to display the VLAN configuration, and to verify the configuration. Execute the reset command in user view to reset 802.1x statistics information. Execute the debugging command in user view to debug the 802.1x module.

Table 228 Display and Debug 802.1x

Operation	Command
Display the configuration, running and	display dot1x [ sessions
statistics information of 802.1x	statistics ] [ interface
	interface-list ]
Reset the 802.1x statistics information	reset dot1x statistics [
	interface interface-list ]
Enable the error/event/packet/all debugging of	debugging dot1x { error event
802.1x	packet all }
Disable the error/event/packet/all debugging	undo debugging dot1x { error
of 802.1x.	event packet all }

Example: 802.1x Configuration

As shown in the following figure, the workstation is connected to port 1/0/2 of the Switch 7750.

The switch administrator will enable 802.1x on all the ports to authenticate the supplicants in order to control their access to the Internet. The access control mode is based on the MAC address.