Configuring 802.1X Re-Authentication; Configuring The 802.1X Re-Authentication Timer - H3C S5100-SI Operation Manual

The guest VLAN function is available only when the switch operates in the port-based
authentication mode.
Only one guest VLAN can be configured for each switch.
The guest VLAN function cannot be implemented if you configure the dot1x
dhcp-launch command on the switch to enable DHCP-triggered authentication. This is
because the switch does not send authentication packets in that case.

Configuring 802.1x Re-Authentication

Follow these steps to enable 802.1x re-authentication:
To do...
Enter system view
Enable 802.1x
re-authenticatio
n on port(s)
To enable 802.1x re-authentication on a port, you must first enable 802.1x globally and
on the port.
When re-authenticating a user, a switch goes through the complete authentication
process. It transmits the username and password of the user to the server. The server
may authenticate the username and password, or, however, use re-authentication for
only accounting and user connection status checking and therefore does not
authenticate the username and password any more.
An authentication server running CAMS authenticates the username and password
during re-authentication of a user in the EAP authentication mode but does not in PAP
or CHAP authentication mode.

Configuring the 802.1x Re-Authentication Timer

After 802.1x re-authentication is enabled on the switch, the switch determines the
re-authentication interval in one of the following two ways:
1) The switch uses the value of the Session-timeout attribute field of the Access-Accept
packet sent by the RADIUS server as the re-authentication interval.
2) The switch uses the value configured with the dot1x timer reauth-period command as
the re-authentication interval for access users.
Note the following:
Use the command...
system-view
In system dot1x re-authenticate
view [ interface interface-list ]
In port view dot1x re-authenticate
1-20
Remarks
—
Required
By default, 802.1x
re-authentication is
disabled on a port.