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| Security Measures
Configuring 802.1X Port Authentication
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Authenticator PAE State Machine
◆ State – Current state (including initialize, disconnected, connecting,
authenticating, authenticated, aborting, held, force_authorized,
force_unauthorized).
◆ Reauth Count – Number of times connecting state is re-entered.
◆ Current Identifier – Identifier sent in each EAP Success, Failure or
Request packet by the Authentication Server.
Backend State Machine
◆ State – Current state (including request, response, success, fail,
timeout, idle, initialize).
◆ Request Count – Number of EAP Request packets sent to the
Supplicant without receiving a response.
◆ Identifier (Server) – Identifier carried in the most recent EAP
Success, Failure or Request packet received from the Authentication
Server.
Reauthentication State Machine
◆ State – Current state (including initialize, reauthenticate).
WEB INTERFACE
To configure port authenticator settings for 802.1X:
1. Click Security, Port Authentication.
2. Select Configure Interface from the Step list.
3. Click Authenticator.
4. Modify the authentication settings for each port as required.
5. Click Apply