Configuring The Authentication Trigger Function - HP 3600 v2 Series Security Configuration Manual

Configuration guidelines
Follow these guidelines when you configure the online user handshake function:
To use the online handshake security function, make sure the online user handshake function is
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enabled. HP recommends that you use the iNode client software and iMC server to guarantee the
normal operation of the online user handshake security function.
If the network has 802.1X clients that cannot exchange handshake packets with the network access
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device, disable the online user handshake function to prevent their connections from being
inappropriately torn down.
Configuration procedure
Follow these steps to configure the online user handshake function:
To do...
Enter system view
Set the handshake timer
Enter Ethernet interface view
Enable the online handshake
function
Enable the online handshake
security function

Configuring the authentication trigger function

About the authentication trigger function
The authentication trigger function enables the network access device to initiate 802.1X authentication
when 802.1X clients cannot initiate authentication.
This function provides the following types of authentication trigger:
Multicast trigger—Periodically multicasts Identity EAP-Request packets out of a port to detect 802.1X
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clients and trigger authentication.
Unicast trigger—Enables the network device to initiate 802.1X authentication when it receives a
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data frame from an unknown source MAC address. The device sends a unicast Identity
EAP/Request packet to the unknown source MAC address, and retransmits the packet if it has
received no response within a period of time. This process continues until the maximum number of
request attempts set with the dot1x retry command (see
authentication request
The identity request timeout timer sets both the identity request interval for the multicast trigger and the
identity request timeout interval for the unicast trigger.
Configuration guidelines
Follow these guidelines when you configure the authentication trigger function:
Enable the multicast trigger on a port when the clients attached to the port cannot send EAPOL-Start
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packets to initiate 802.1X authentication.
Use the command...
system-view
dot1x timer handshake-period
handshake-period-value
interface interface-type
interface-number
dot1x handshake
dot1x handshake secure
attempts") is reached.
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Remarks
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Optional
The default is 15 seconds.
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Optional
Enabled by default.
Optional
Disabled by default.
"Setting the maximum number of