DVS Series Managed Industrial Ethernet Switches User’s Manual
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Description Factory Default
Control Mode
Specify the control mode for port authorization. The control mode is
active only if the link status of the interface is up.
ForceUnauthorized: Places the interface in the unauthorized state.
The switch cannot provide authentication services to a client through
the interface.
Auto: After any supplicant completes authentication successfully on
the interface, others can access the network service through the
same interface without authentication.
ForceAuthorized: Places the interface in the authorized state. The
interface sends and receives normal traffic without client port-based
authentication.
ForceAuthorized
Periodic Reauthentication
Specify whether the supplicant is periodically reauthenticated for the
interface:
Enabled: The supplicant is reauthenticated according to the
reauthentication period.
Disabled: The supplicant is not reauthenticated.
Disable
Reauthentication Period
Specify the reauthentication period for the interface. The
reauthentication period determines when the supplicant is
reauthenticated when period reauthentication is enabled. Enter a
period in the range of 1 to 65535 seconds.
3600
EAPOL Packets Flood
Specify whether the EAPOL packet flood mode is enabled for the
interface:
Enabled: The EAPOL packet flood mode is enabled. Enabling this
mode does not provide any protection from an EAPOL packet flood
denial of service (DoS) attack. If the switch is used as a hub, you
might want to enable the EAPOL packet flood mode.
Disabled: The EAPOL packet flood mode is disabled.
Disable
Local Authentication Server
Users list in this page and in Local Users Management page of Management Security are
independently. Users list in this page is for 802.1X authentication. So you can configure a different
user name with the user in the Local Management page of Management Security.