Nortel business policy switch 2000 User Manual page 194

194 Chapter 3 Using the console interface
Table 21 EAPOL security configuration screen options (continued)
Option
Administrative Traffic
Control
Operational Traffic
Control
Re-authenticate Now
Re-authentication
Re-authentication Period
Quiet Period
Transmit Period
Supplicant Timeout
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Description
Allows you to choose whether EAPOL authentication is set for incoming and
outgoing traffic or for incoming traffic only. For example, if you set the
specified unit/port field value to Incoming and Outgoing, and the EAPOL
authentication fails, then both incoming and outgoing traffic on the specified
unit/port is blocked.
Default Incoming and Outgoing
Range Incoming and Outgoing,Incoming Only
A read-only field that indicates the current administrative traffic control
configuration for the specified unit/port (see preceding field description). This
read-only field does not appear when the Unit/Port field value is set to All.
Default Incoming and Outgoing
Range Incoming and Outgoing,Incoming Only
Allows you to activate EAPOL authentication for the specified unit/port
immediately, without waiting for the Re-Authentication Period to expire.
Default No
Range No,Yes
Allows you to repeat EAPOL authentication for the specified unit/port
according to the time interval value configured in the Re-Authentication
Period field (see next field description).
Default Enabled
Range Enabled,Disabled
When the Re-Authentication field value (see preceding field) is set to
enabled, this field allows you to specify the time period between successive
EAPOL authentications for the specified unit/port.
Default 3600 seconds
Range 1 to 604800 seconds
Allows you to specify the time period between any single EAPOL
authentication failure and the start of a new EAPOL authentication attempt.
Default 60 seconds
Range 0 to 65535 seconds
Allows you to specify how long the switch waits for the supplicant to respond
to EAP Request/Identity packets.
Default 30 seconds
Range 1 to 65535 seconds
Allows you to specify how long the switch waits for the supplicant to respond
to all EAP packets, except EAP Request/Identity packets.