3com 4500 50-PORT User Manual

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Use the 

 command to enable the quiet-period timer. Use the 

 command to disable this timer. 

If an 802.1x user has not been authenticated, the Authenticator will keep quiet for 
a while (which is specified by quiet-period timer) before launching the 
authentication again. During the quiet period, the Authenticator does not do 
anything related to 802.1x authentication. 

By default, the quiet-period timer is disabled.

Related command: 

, 

.

To enable quiet-period timer, enter the following:

<4500>system-view

System View: return to User View with Ctrl-Z

[4500]dot1x quiet-period 

System View

 Specifies the maximum times an Ethernet switch can 

retransmit the authentication request frame to the supplicant, ranging from 1 to 
10. 

By default, the value is 3, that is, the Switch can retransmit the authentication 
request frame to the supplicant 3 times. 

Use the 

 command to configure the maximum times a Switch can 

retransmit the authentication request frame to the supplicant. Use the 

 command to restore the default maximum retransmission time. 

After the Switch has transmitted an authentication request frame to the user for 
the first time, if no user response is received during the specified time-range, the 
Switch will re-transmit authentication request to the user. This command is used to 
specify how many times the Switch can re-transmit the authentication request 
frame to the supplicant. When the time is 1, the Switch is configured to transmit 
the authentication request frame only once. 2 indicates that the Switch is 
configured to transmit authentication request frame once again when no response 
is received for the first time and so on.  This command has an effect on all the 
ports after configuration.