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Administrative Traffic
Control
Allows you to choose whether EAPOL authentication is set for incoming and
outgoing traffic or for incoming traffic only. For example, if you set the
specified unit/port field value to Incoming and Outgoing, and the EAPOL
authentication fails, then both incoming and outgoing traffic on the specified
unit/port is blocked.
Default Incoming and Outgoing
Range Incoming and Outgoing,Incoming Only
Operational Traffic
Control
A read-only field that indicates the current administrative traffic control
configuration for the specified unit/port (see preceding field description). This
read-only field does not appear when the Unit/Port field value is set to ALL.
Default Incoming and Outgoing
Range Incoming and Outgoing,Incoming Only
Re-authenticate Now Allows you to activate EAPOL authentication for the specified unit/port
immediately, without waiting for the Re-authentication Period to expire.
Default No
Range No,Yes
Re-authentication Allows you to repeat EAPOL authentication for the specified unit/port
according to the time interval value configured in the Re-authentication
Period field (see next field description).
Default Enabled
Range Enabled,Disabled
Re-authentication Period When the Re-authentication field value (see preceding field) is set to
Enabled, this field allows you to specify the time period between successive
EAPOL authentications for the specified unit/port.
Default 3600 seconds
Range 1 to 604800 seconds
Quiet Period Allows you to specify the time period between any single EAPOL
authentication failure and the start of a new EAPOL authentication attempt.
Default 60 seconds
Range 0 to 65535 seconds
Transmit Period Allows you to specify how long the switch waits for the supplicant to respond
to EAP Request/Identity packets.
Default 30 seconds
Range 1 to 65535 seconds
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Table 3-12. EAPOL Security Configuration Screen Options (continued)
Option Description