Chapter 19 802.1x

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 37 Port Settings

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Port

Select a port number to configure.

 

 

802.1x State

Select Enable to permit 802.1x authentication on the port.

 

You must first enable 802.1x authentication on the Switch before

 

configuring it on each port.

Admin Control

Select Both to drop incoming and outgoing packets on the port when a

Direction

user has not passed 802.1x port authentication.

 

Select In to drop only incoming packets on the port when a user has not

 

passed 802.1x port authentication.

 

 

Reauthenticati

Specify if a subscriber has to periodically re-enter his or her username

on

and password to stay connected to the port.

 

 

Port Control

Select Auto to require authentication on the port.

Mode

Select Force Authorized to always force this port to be authorized.

 

 

Select Force Unauthorized to always force this port to be

 

unauthorized. No packets can pass through this port.

 

 

Guest VLAN

Select None to disable Guest VLAN.

 

Select 1 to use VLAN 1 for traffic from hosts that have not passed

 

authentication. Use this to limit the permissions of hosts which have not

 

passed authentication.

 

 

Max-req Time

Specify the amount of times the Switch will try to connect to the

 

authentication server before determining the server is down. The

 

acceptable range for this field is 1 to 10 times.

 

 

Reauth period

Specify how often a client has to re-enter his or her username and

 

password to stay connected to the port. The acceptable range for this

 

field is 0 to 65535 seconds.

 

 

Quiet period

Specify a period of the time the client has to wait before the next

 

reauthentication attempt. This will prevent the Switch from becoming

 

overloaded with continous reauthentication attempts from the client. The

 

acceptable range for this field is 0 to 65535 seconds.

 

 

Supp timeout

Specify how long the Switch will wait before communicating with the

 

client. The acceptable range for this field is 0 to 65535 seconds.

 

 

Server timeout

Specify how long the Switch will wait before communicating with the

 

server. The acceptable range for this field is 0 to 65535 seconds.

 

 

Reset to

Select this and click Apply to reset the custom 802.1x port

Default

authentication settings back to default.

 

 

Apply

Click this to save any changes.

 

 

Refresh

Click this to reload the screen and reset any changes that were just

 

made.

 

 

Port Status

 

 

 

Port

This field displays the port number.

 

 

802.1x State

This field displays if 802.1x authentication is Enabled or Disabled on

 

the port.

 

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