Enabling/Disabling A Quiet-Period Timer - Huawei Quidway S6500 Series Operation Manual

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server-timeout: Specify the timeout timer of an Authentication Server. If an
Authentication Server has not responded before the specified period expires, the
Authenticator will resend the authentication request.
server-timeout-value: Specify how long the duration of a timeout timer of an
Authentication Server is. The value ranges from 100 to 300 in units of second and
defaults to 100 seconds.
supp-timeout: Specify the authentication timeout timer of a Supplicant. After the
Authenticator sends Request/Challenge request packet which requests the MD5
encrypted text, the supp-timeout timer of the Authenticator begins to run. If the
Supplicant does not respond back successfully within the time range set by this timer,
the Authenticator will resend the above packet.
supp-timeout-value: Specify how long the duration of an authentication timeout timer of
a Supplicant is. The value ranges from 10 to 120 in units of second and defaults to 30.
tx-period: Specify the transmission timeout timer. After the Authenticator sends the
Request/Identity request packet which requests the user name or user name and
password together, the tx-period timer of the Authenticator begins to run. If the
Supplicant does not respond back with authentication reply packet successfully, then
the Authenticator will resend the authentication request packet.
tx-period-value: Specify how long the duration of the transmission timeout timer is. The
value ranges from 10 to 120 in units of second and defaults to 30.
reauth-period: Re-authentication timeout timer. During the time limit set by this timer,
the supplicant device launches 802.1x re-authentication.
reauth-period-value: Period set by the re-authentication timeout timer, ranging from 1 to
86400, in seconds. By default, the value is 3600.
ver-period: Client version request timeout timer. If the supplicant device failed to send
the version response packet within the time set by this timer, then the authenticator
device will resend the version request packet.
ver-period-value: Period set by the version request timeout timer, ranging from 1 to 30,
in seconds. By default, the value is 30.

1.2.13 Enabling/Disabling a Quiet-Period Timer

If an 802.1x user has not passed the authentication, the Authenticator will keep quiet for
a while (which is specified by dot1x timer quiet-period command) before launching
the authentication again. During the quiet period, the Authenticator does not do
anything related to 802.1x authentication.
Perform the following configuration in system view.
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