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AT-S62 User’s Guide

Section VIII: Web Browser Management

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authentication of the client. This is the default setting

Force-unauthorized: Causes the port to remain in the

unauthorized state, ignoring all attempts by the client to
authenticate. The switch cannot provide authentication services
to the client through the interface

Auto: Enables 802.1x port-based authentication and causes the

port to begin in the unauthorized state, allowing only EAPOL
frames to be sent and received through the port. The
authentication process begins when the link state of the port
changes or the port receives an EAPOL-Start packet from a
supplicant. The switch requests the identity of the client and
begins relaying authentication messages between the client and
the authentication server. Each client that attempts to access the
network is uniquely identified by the switch using the client's
MAC address.

Quiet Period
Sets the number of seconds that the port remains in the quiet
state following a failed authentication exchange with the clien

t.

The default value is 60 seconds. The range is 0 to 65,535 seconds.

TX Period
Sets the number of seconds that the switch waits for a response to
an EAP-request/identity frame from the client before
retransmitting the request. The default value is 30 seconds. The
range is 1 to 65,535 seconds.

Reauth Period
Enables periodic reauthentication of the client, which is disabled
by default. The default value is 3600 seconds. The range is 1 to
65,535 seconds.

Supplicant Timeout
Sets the switch-to-client retransmission time for the EAP-request
frame. The default value for this parameter is 30 seconds. The
range is 1 to 600 seconds.

Server Timeout
Sets the timer used by the switch to determine authentication
server timeout conditions. The default value for this parameter is
30 seconds. The range is 1 to 65,535 seconds.

Max Requests
Specifies the maximum number of times that the switch
retransmits an EAP Request packet to the client before it times out
the authentication session. The default value for this parameter is
2 retransmissions. The range is 1 to 10 retransmissions.