Command Manual – Security 
Quidway S8500 Series Routing Switches  Chapter 1  
802.1x Configuration Commands
 
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Example 
# Specify to perform port-based authentications. 
[Quidway] dot1x port-method portbased 
# Enable Guest VLAN on all ports. 
[Quidway] dot1x guest-vlan 1 
1.1.7  dot1x max-user 
Syntax 
dot1x max-user user-number [ interface interface-list ] 
undo dot1x max-user [ interface interface-list ] 
View 
System view, Ethernet port view 
Parameter 
user-number: Specifies the limit to the amount of supplicants on the port, ranging from 1 
to 1024.  
By default, the maximum user number is 1024. And a switch can accommodate a total 
of 2048 users. 
interface  interface-list: Ethernet interface list expressed in the format interface-list 
=interface-type interface-number [ to interface-type interface-number ] &<1-10>. 
interface-type means the interface type, interface-number is the interface number. 
Refer to command parameters in the “Port” section in the manual for the respective 
meanings and value ranges of them. The interface number after the key word to should 
be no smaller than the interface number before to. &<1-10> in the command means 
that the preceding parameter can be entered up to 10 times. 
Description 
Use the dot1x max-user command to configure a limit to the amount of supplicants on 
the specified interface of 802.1x. 
Use the undo dot1x max-user command to restore the default value. 
This command is used for setting a limit to the amount of supplicants that 802.1x can 
hold on the specified interface. This command has effect on the interface specified by 
the parameter interface-list  when executed in system view. It has effect on all the 
interfaces when no interface is specified. The parameter interface-list cannot be input 
when the command is executed in Ethernet interface view and it has effect only on the 
current interface.  
Related command: display dot1x.