Brocade 6910 Ethernet Access Switch Configuration Guide (Supporting R2.2.0.0) User Manual

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802.1X Port Authentication

Quiet Period – Time a port waits after Max Request Count is exceeded before attempting
to acquire a new client (see

“dot1x timeout quiet-period”

on page 178).

TX Period – Time a port waits during authentication session before re-transmitting EAP
packet (see

“dot1x timeout tx-period,”

).

Supplicant Timeout – Supplicant timeout.

Server Timeout – Server timeout. A RADIUS server must be set before the correct
operational value of 10 seconds will be displayed in this field.

Reauth Max Retries – Maximum number of reauthentication attempts.

Max Request – Maximum number of times a port will retransmit an EAP request/identity
packet to the client before it times out the authentication session (see

“dot1x max-req”

on

page 176).

Operation Mode– Shows if single or multiple hosts (clients) can connect to an
802.1X-authorized port.

Port Control–Shows the dot1x mode on a port as auto, force-authorized, or
force-unauthorized (see

“dot1x port-control”

on page 177).

Intrusion Action– Shows the port response to intrusion when authentication fails (see

“dot1x intrusion-action”

on page 175).

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.

Current Identifier– The integer (0-255) used by the Authenticator to identify the current
authentication session.

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).

Example

Console#show dot1x

Global 802.1X Parameters

System Auth Control : Enabled

Authenticator Parameters:

EAPOL Pass Through : Disabled

Supplicant Parameters:

Identity Profile Username : steve

802.1X Port Summary

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