Hand Held Products 7900 manual Protocol Tab, Field Description Protocol Settings, Display EAP

Protocol Tab

The Protocol tab configures parameters that apply to all the networks the selected port connects to.

Field	Description
Protocol Settings	These are the timer intervals and retry settings defined in the 802.1X standard. They determine how
	long the supplicant state machine will wait in a given state. These parameters shouldn’t be modified
	without an understanding of the supplicant state machine. For more information about the supplicant
	state machine, obtain its 802.1X protocol specification.
	The parameters are:
	• Authentication Timeout - The period of time the Client remains in the authenticating or acquired
	state without receiving a response from the AP or switch.
	• Held Timeout - The period of time the Client remains in the held state after failing authentication.
	• Start Timeout - The period of time the Client remains in the connecting state before restarting when
	there is no response.
	• Number of Start Attempts - The number of times the Client restarts before giving up. At that point,
	the Client then defaults to the authenticated state, but there will be no network connectivity because
	the protocol exchange was never completed.
Display EAP	Specifies that the EAPOL notification message will be displayed to the user. An authenticator may
notifications	use such notification to inform you, for example, about a near password expiration. However, some
	authenticators send chatty and annoying notifications that may, for the convenience of the user, be
	suppressed. Note that all notifications are written to the event log even if they are not displayed.
Renew IP address	Initiates a DHCP request to obtain a dynamic IP address after a successful authentication, but only if
	the client detects that the connected network (the SSID) has changed. The result is that renewal
	should not occur upon re-authentication, but does occur at boot or when connecting to a different net-
	work.
	If you have a slow authenticator, you may wish to enable this option when configuring the service
	because a slow authenticator may prevent you from getting a DHCP-assigned IP address upon boot-
	up. This option is ignored if the given adapter has a static IP address.

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