Allied Telesis AT-S63 User Manual

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Chapter 29: 802.1x Port-based Network Access Control

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Section IV: Security

Port Role
Port access role configured for the port. The possible settings are
None, Authenticator, or Supplicant.

State
State of the port. The state field is dependent on whether a port is
configured as an authenticator or a supplicant.

When you configure a port with an Authenticator Role, the State
field can have the following values:

Aborting
Authenticated
Authenticating
Connecting
Disconnected
Force_Auth
Force_Unauth
Held
Initialize

When you configure a port with a Supplicant role, the State field
can have the following values:

Acquired
Authenticated
Authenticating
Connecting
Disconnected
Held
Logoff

Additional Info
When you assign a port the role of Authenticator and it has a
status of Authenticated, this field also displays the MAC address of
the Authenticator.

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