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SMC Networks 16 10BASE-T User Manual

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Authentication Commands

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802.1X Port Details – Displays the port access control parameters for each

interface, including the following items:
- reauth-enabled

– Periodic re-authentication (page 4-80).

- reauth-period

– Time after which a connected client must be

re-authenticated (page 4-81).

- quiet-period

– Time a port waits after Max Request Count is

exceeded before attempting to acquire a new
client (page 4-81).

- tx-period

– Time a port waits during authentication session

before re-transmitting EAP packet (page 4-82).

- supplicant-timeout

– Supplicant timeout.

- server-timeout

– Server timeout.

- reauth-max

– Maximum number of reauthentication attempts.

- max-req

– Maximum number of times a port will retransmit

an EAP request/identity packet to the client
before it times out the authentication session
(page 4-78).

- Status

– Authorization status (authorized or not).

- Operation Mode

– Shows if single or multiple hosts (clients) can

connect to an 802.1X-authorized port.

- Max Count

– The maximum number of hosts allowed to

access this port (page 4-79).

- Port-control

– Shows the dot1x mode on a port as auto,

force-authorized, or force-unauthorized
(page 4-79).

- Supplicant

– MAC address of authorized client.

- Current Identifier

– The integer (0-255) used by the Authenticator to

identify the current authentication session.

- Mode

– Dot1x port control mode (page 4-79).

- Authorized

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

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 carried in the most recent EAP Success,

Failure or Request packet received from the
Authentication Server.

Reauthentication State Machine

- State

– Current state (including initialize, reauthenticate).

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