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Cisco ME 3400 Ethernet Access Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 8 Configuring IEEE 802.1x Port-Based Authentication
Configuring IEEE 802.1x Authentication
Configuring IEEE 802.1x Authentication
These sections contain this configuration information:
• Default IEEE 802.1x Configuration, page 8-9
• IEEE 802.1x Configuration Guidelines, page 8-10
• Configuring IEEE 802.1x Authentication, page 8-11 (required)
• Configuring the Switch-to-RADIUS-Server Communication, page 8-12 (required)
• Configuring Periodic Re-Authentication, page 8-13 (optional)
• Manually Re-Authenticating a Client Connected to a Port, page 8-14 (optional)
• Changing the Quiet Period, page 8-14 (optional)
• Changing the Switch-to-Client Retransmission Time, page 8-15 (optional)
• Setting the Switch-to-Client Frame-Retransmission Number, page 8-15 (optional)
• Setting the Re-Authentication Number, page 8-16 (optional)
• Configuring the Host Mode, page 8-17 (optional)
• Resetting the IEEE 802.1x Configuration to the Default Values, page 8-17 (optional)
• Configuring IEEE 802.1x Accounting, page 8-18 (optional)
Default IEEE 802.1x Configuration
Table 8-2 shows the default IEEE 802.1x configuration.
Table 8-2 Default IEEE 802.1x Configuration
Feature Default Setting
AAA Disabled.
RADIUS server
• IP address
• UDP authentication port
• Key
• None specified.
• 1812.
• None specified.
Switch IEEE 802.1x enable state Disabled.
Per-port IEEE 802.1x enable state Disabled (force-authorized).
The port sends and receives normal traffic without IEEE
802.1x-based authentication of the client.
Periodic re-authentication Disabled.
Number of seconds between
re-authentication attempts
3600 seconds.
Re-authentication number 2 times (number of times that the switch restarts the
authentication process before the port changes to the
unauthorized state).