Switching Commands
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ProSafe M4100 and M7100 Managed Switches
Backend
Authentication
State
Current state of the backend authentication state machine. Possible values are
Request, Response, Success, Fail, Timeout, Idle, and Initialize. When MAC-based
authentication is enabled on the port, this parameter is deprecated.
Quiet Period The timer used by the authenticator state machine on this port to define periods of time
in which it will not attempt to acquire a supplicant. The value is expressed in seconds
and will be in the range 0 and 65535.
Transmit Period The timer used by the authenticator state machine on the specified port to determine
when to send an EAPOL EAP Request/Identity frame to the supplicant. The value is
expressed in seconds and will be in the range of 1 and 65535.
Guest-VLAN ID The guest VLAN identifier configured on the interface.
Guest VLAN
Period The time in seconds for which the authenticator waits before authorizing and placing the
port in the Guest VLAN, if no EAPOL packets are detected on that port.
Supplicant
Timeout The timer used by the authenticator state machine on this port to timeout the supplicant.
The value is expressed in seconds and will be in the range of 1 and 65535.
Server Timeout The timer used by the authenticator on this port to timeout the authentication server.
The value is expressed in seconds and will be in the range of 1 and 65535.
Maximum
Requests The maximum number of times the authenticator state machine on this port will
retransmit an EAPOL EAP Request/Identity before timing out the supplicant. The value
will be in the range of 1 and 10.
VLAN Id The VLAN assigned to the port by the radius server. This is only valid when the port
control mode is not Mac-based.
VLAN Assigned
Reason The reason the VLAN identified in the VLAN Idfield has been assigned to the port.
Possible values are RADIUS, Unauthenticated VLAN, Guest VLAN, default, and Not
Assigned. When the VLAN Assigned Reason is ‘Not Assigned’, it means that the port
has not been assigned to any VLAN by dot1x. This only valid when the port control
mode is not MAC-based.
Reauthentication
Period The timer used by the authenticator state machine on this port to determine when
reauthentication of the supplicant takes place. The value is expressed in seconds and
will be in the range of 1 and 65535.
Reauthentication
Enabled Indicates if reauthentication is enabled on this port. Possible values are ‘True” or
“False”.
Key
Transmission
Enabled
Indicates if the key is transmitted to the supplicant for the specified port. Possible values
are True or False.
Control Direction The control direction for the specified port or ports. Possible values are both or in.
Maximum Users The maximum number of clients that can get authenticated on the port in the
MAC-based dot1x authentication mode. This value is used only when the port control
mode is not MAC-based.
Unauthenticated
VLAN ID Indicates the unauthenticated VLAN configured for this port. This value is valid for the
port only when the port control mode is not MAC-based.
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