Cisco Cisco SF302-08PP 8-port 10 100 PoE+ Managed Switch Manual De Mantenimiento

802.1X Configuration Through the GUI

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Cisco 300 Series Managed Switches Administration Guide

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Quiet Period—Enter the number of seconds that the device remains in the 
quiet state following a failed authentication exchange.

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Resending EAP—Enter the number of seconds that the device waits for a 
response to an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) request/identity 
frame from the supplicant (client) before resending the request.

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Max EAP Requests—Enter the maximum number of EAP requests that can 
be sent. If a response is not received after the defined period (supplicant 
timeout), the authentication process is restarted. 

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Supplicant Timeout—Enter the number of seconds that lapses before EAP 
requests are resent to the supplicant.

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Server Timeout—Enter the number of seconds that lapses before the 
device resends a request to the authentication server. 

Click Apply. The port settings are written to the Running Configuration file.

The Host and Session Authentication page enables defining the mode in which 
802.1X operates on the port and the action to perform if a violation has been 
detected.

See 

 for an explanation of these modes.

To define 802.1X advanced settings for ports:

Click Security > 802.1X/MAC/Web Authentication > Host and Session 
Authentication.

802.1X authentication parameters are described for all ports. All fields except the 
following are described in the Edit page.

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Number of Violations—Displays the number of packets that arrive on the 
interface in single-host mode, from a host whose MAC address is not the 
supplicant MAC address.

Select a port, and click Edit.

Enter the parameters.

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Interface—Enter a port number for which host authentication is enabled.