6 restart session login prompt, Restart session login prompt – Fortress Technologies ecure Wireless Access Bridge User Manual

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Fortress Bridge: Configuration

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To configure maximum authentication attempts:

1

Log on to the Bridge GUI

admin

account and select

SECURITY

SETTINGS

from the menu on the left.

2

In the

AUTHENTICATION

SETTINGS

frame, in the

Auth Mode

field, ensure that

Local

authentication is enabled.

3

Under

AUTHENTICATION

OPTIONS

, in the

Max Auth Retries

field, enter a whole number between 1 and 255.

4

Click

Apply

at the bottom of the screen.

A devices that exceeds the maximum allowable retry attempts
to connect to the Bridge-secured network is locked out until the
device’s

State

is set to

Allowed

. Such a device is locked out on

every Bridge in a point-to-multipoint network, and you must
change the device’s

State

setting on every Bridge that handles

traffic from the device.

Users who exceed the maximum allowable retry attempts to
log on to the Bridge-secured network are locked out until you
reset their sessions.

3.6.6.6

Restart Session Login Prompt
When the

Restart Session Login Prompt

is enabled on the

Bridge, the sessions of users whose traffic is passed by that
Bridge timeout at the configured interval, forcing these users’
devices to renegotiate encryption keys and prompting users to
reauthenticate by entering their user names and passwords.

In point-to-point and point-to-multipoint deployments, such a
user would be prompted for his credentials by every Bridge that
passes traffic from that user’s device.

To avoid repeated login prompts for these users, disable

Restart Session Login Prompt

on all of the non-root Bridges on

the network. This will allow the user to reauthenticate and the
device to re-key with only the root Bridge.

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