Operation Manual – 802.1x and System Guard
H3C S5100-SI/EI Series Ethernet Switches
Chapter 1 802.1x Configuration
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1.4.5 Configuring 802.1x Re-Authentication
Follow these steps to enable 802.1x re-authentication:
To do...
Use the command...
Remarks
Enter system view
system-view
—
In system
view
dot1x re-authenticate
[
interface interface-list
]
Enable 802.1x
re-authenticati
on on port(s)
In port view
dot1x re-authenticate
Required
By default, 802.1x
re-authentication is
disabled on a port.
Note:
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To enable 802.1x re-authentication on a port, you must first enable 802.1x globally
and on the port.
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When re-authenticating a user, a switch goes through the complete authentication
process. It transmits the username and password of the user to the server. The
server may authenticate the username and password, or, however, use
re-authentication for only accounting and user connection status checking and
therefore does not authenticate the username and password any more.
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An authentication server running CAMS authenticates the username and password
during re-authentication of a user in the EAP authentication mode but does not in
PAP or CHAP authentication mode.
1.4.6 Configuring the 802.1x Re-Authentication Timer
After 802.1x re-authentication is enabled on the switch, the switch determines the
re-authentication interval in one of the following two ways:
1) The switch uses the value of the Session-timeout attribute field of the
Access-Accept packet sent by the RADIUS server as the re-authentication
interval.
2) The switch uses the value configured with the
dot1x timer reauth-period
command as the re-authentication interval for access users.
Note the following:
During re-authentication, the switch always uses the latest re-authentication interval
configured, no matter which of the above-mentioned two ways is used to determine the
re-authentication interval. For example, if you configure a re-authentication interval on
the switch and the switch receives an Access-Accept packet whose Termination-Action
attribute field is 1, the switch will ultimately use the value of the Session-timeout
attribute field as the re-authentication interval.