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Description
PAE Capabilities
The Port Access Entity (PAE) role, which is one of the following:
Authenticator Options
Control Mode
The port-based access control mode on the port, which is one of the
following:
Quiet Period (Sec-
The number of seconds that the port remains in the quiet state follow-
onds)
ing a failed authentication exchange.
Transmit Period
The value, in seconds, of the timer used by the authenticator state
(Seconds)
machine on the port to determine when to send an EAPOL EAP
Request/Identity frame to the supplicant.
Guest VLAN ID
The VLAN ID for the guest VLAN. The guest VLAN allows the port to
provide a distinguished service to unauthenticated users. This feature
provides a mechanism to allow users access to hosts on the guest
VLAN.
Guest VLAN Period
The value, in seconds, of the timer used for guest VLAN authentica-
(Seconds)
tion.
Unauthenticated
The VLAN ID of the unauthenticated VLAN. Hosts that fail the authen-
VLAN ID
tication might be denied access to the network or placed on a VLAN
created for unauthenticated clients. This VLAN might be configured
with limited network access.
Supplicant Timeout
The amount of time that the port waits for a response before retrans-
(Seconds)
mitting an EAP request frame to the client.
Server Timeout
The amount of time the port waits for a response from the authentica-
(Seconds)
tion server.
Maximum Requests The maximum number of times that the port sends an EAP request
frame (assuming that no response is received) to the client before
restarting the authentication process.
Configured MAB
The configured MAC-based Authentication Bypass (MAB) mode on the
Mode
port.
Operational MAB
The operational MAC-based Authentication Bypass (MAB) mode on
Mode
the port.
Re-Authentication
The amount of time that clients can be connected to the port without
Period (Seconds)
being reauthenticated. If this field is disabled, connected clients are not
forced to reauthenicate periodically.
Authenticator: The port enforces authentication and passes
authentication information from a remote supplicant (client or
host) to the authentication server. If the server successfully
authenticates the supplicant, the port allows access.
Supplicant: The port is connected to an authenticator port and
must be granted permission by the authentication server before it
can send and receive traffic through the remote port.
Auto: The port is unauthorized until a successful authentication
exchange has taken place.
Force Unauthorized: The port ignores supplicant authentication
attempts and does not provide authentication services to the cli-
ent.
Force Authorized: The port sends and receives normal traffic
without client port-based authentication.
MAC-Based: This mode allows multiple supplicants connected to
the same port to each authenticate individually. Each host con-
nected to the port must authenticate separately in order to gain
access to the network. The hosts are distinguished by their MAC
addresses.
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