Hand Held Products 9500 - Manual (Page 131)

Dolphin® 9500 Series User’s Guide 7 - 29
Protocol Tab
The Protocol tab enables you to configure parameters that will apply to all the networks the selected port connects to.
Field Description
Protocol Settings These are the timer intervals and retry settings defined in the 802.1X standard. They determine
how long the supplicant state machine will wait in a given state. These parameters shouldn’t be
modified without an understanding of the supplicant state machine. For more information about
the supplicant state machine, obtain its 802.1X protocol specification.
The parameters are:
• Authentication Timeout - The period of time the Client remains in the authenticating or
acquired state without receiving a response from the access point or switch.
• Held Timeout - The period of time the Client remains in the held state after failing
authentication.
• Start Timeout - The period of time the Client remains in the connecting state before restarting
when there is no response.
• Number of Start Attempts - The number of times the Client restarts before giving up. At that
point, the Client then defaults to the authenticated state, but there will be no network
connectivity because the protocol exchange was never completed.
Display EAP
notifications This option specifies that the EAPOL notification message will be displayed to the user. An
authenticator may use such notification to inform you, for example, about a near password
expiration. However, some authenticators send chatty and annoying notifications that may, for
the convenience of the user, be suppressed. Note that all notifications are written to the event
log even if they are not displayed.
Renew IP address Select this option to initiate a DHCP request to obtain a dynamic IP address after a successful
authentication, but only if the client detects that the connected network (the SSID) has changed.
The result is that renewal should not occur upon re-authentication, but does occur at boot or
when connecting to a different network. If you have a slow authenticator, you may wish to enable
this option when configuring the service because a slow authenticator may prevent you from
getting a DHCP-assigned IP address upon boot-up. This option is ignored if the given adapter
has a static IP address.