SMC Networks SMC8624/48T manual Authenticator State Machine

COMMAND LINE INTERFACE

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

-Status– Administrative state for port access control.

-Mode– Dot1x port control mode (page 4-107).

-Authorized– Authorization status (yes or n/a - not authorized).

•802.1X Port Details – Displays detailed port access control settings for each interface as described in the preceding pages, including administrative status for port access control, Max request (page

4-106),Quiet period (page 4-109),Reauth period (page 4-110),Tx period (page 4-110),and Port-control (page 4-107). It also displays the following information:

-Status– Authorization status (authorized or unauthorized).

-Supplicant– MAC address of authorized client.

•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 packet received from the Authentication Server.

•Reauthentication State Machine

State– Current state (including initialize, reauthenticate).

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