Command Line Interface Reference Guide

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start-period

aaa port-access supplicant [ETHERNET] PORT-LISTstart-period < 1 to 300 >

Set a period of time between EAPOL-Start packet retransmission (default 30sec.).

Range: < 1 to 300 >

supplicant

[no] aaa port-access supplicant [ETHERNET] PORT-LIST

Usage: [no] aaa port-access supplicant [ethernet] PORT-LIST [auth-timeout <1-300> held-period <0-65535> start-period <1-300> max-start <1-10> identity <identity> [secret] secret

initialize reauthenticate clear-statistics]

Description: Manage 802.1X (Port Based Network Access) supplicant

on the device ports. Called without the optional parameters the command enables or disables (if 'no' is specified) the supplicant functionality on the specified ports.

The 'no' keyword can not be used with any of the

optional parameters. All changes made by the command apply to the specified PORT-LIST only.

o 'auth-timeout' sets the period of time the supplicant waits to receive a challenge from the authenticator

(default 30sec.).

o 'held-period' sets a period of time the supplicant waits after receiving a failure before trying to re-acquire the authenticatior (default 60sec.).

o 'start-period' sets a period of time between transmitting EAPOL-Start packets in Connecting state (default 30sec.).

o 'max-start' defines the maximum number of attempts to start authentication before the supplicant assumes that it has been authenticated (default 3).

o 'identity' sets the identity to be used by the port supplicant when MD5 authentication request is received from an authenticator.

o 'secret' sets the secret to be used by the port supplicant when MD5 authentication request is received from an authenticator. User will be prompted to enter the secret after the command is invoked.

o 'initialize' reinitializes supplicant's state machine.

o 'clear-statistics' clears supplicant statistics counters.

Next Available Options:

auth-timeout< 1 to 300 > -- Set the challenge reception timeout (default 30sec.). (NUMBER)

(p. 30)

held-period< 0 to 65535 > -- Set the held period (default 60sec.). (NUMBER) (p. 35)

start-period< 1 to 300 > -- Set a period of time between EAPOL-Start packet retransmission (default 30sec.). (NUMBER) (p. 51)

max-start< 1 to 10 > -- Define the maximum number of attempts taken to start authentication (default 3). (NUMBER) (p. 40)

initialize -- Reinitialize the supplicant state machine.(p. 35)

identity -- Set the identity(user name) to be used by the supplicant. (ASCII-STR) (p. 35)

secret -- Trigger the command to ask user for a password for the supplicant to use.(p. 50)

clear-statistics-- Clear the supplicant statistics.(p. 31)

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