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4 Command Line Interface

•802.1X Port Details – Displays the port access control parameters for each interface, including the following items:

-	reauth-enabled	– Periodic re-authentication (page 4-81).
-	reauth-period	– Time after which a connected client must be
		re-authenticated (page 4-82).
-	quiet-period	– Time a port waits after Max Request Count is
		exceeded before attempting to acquire a new
		client (page 4-82).
-	tx-period	– Time a port waits during authentication session
		before re-transmitting EAP packet (page 4-83).
-	supplicant-timeout	– Supplicant timeout.
-	server-timeout	– Server timeout.
-	reauth-max	– Maximum number of reauthentication attempts.
-	max-req	– Maximum number of times a port will retransmit
		an EAP request/identity packet to the client
		before it times out the authentication session
		(page 4-79).
-	Status	– Authorization status (authorized or not).
-	Operation Mode	– Shows if single or multiple hosts (clients) can
		connect to an 802.1X-authorized port.
-	Max Count	– The maximum number of hosts allowed to
		access this port (page 4-80).
-	Port-control	– Shows the dot1x mode on a port as auto,
		force-authorized, or force-unauthorized
		(page 4-80).
-	Supplicant	– MAC address of authorized client.
-	Current Identifier	– The integer (0-255) used by the Authenticator to
		identify the current authentication session.

•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).

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