Dell N3200-ON EMC Networking N-Series Switches CLI Reference Guide version 6.7 - Page 1044

authentication event fail retry Use the authentication event fail retry command to select the number of times authentication is reattempted by the user for an IEEE 802.1X supplicant. Use the no form of the command to return the number of maximum attempts to the default value. Syntax authentication event fail retry max-attempts no authentication event fail retry • max-attempts - The number of times RADIUS authentication is allowed to fail before failing the authentication and moving to the next authentication method. Default 1. Range 1-5. Default Configuration By default, the number of failed authentication attempts is 1. An authentication failure is declared failed after a single authentication attempt. Command Mode Interface Configuration mode, Interface Range mode User Guidelines This command is only applicable to IEEE 802.1X authentication with a RADIUS server. It has no effect on any other authentication method. This parameter is independent of, and does not control, the number of times the authenticator will attempt to contact the RADIUS servers. For example, if the max-retries for a single configured RADIUS server is set to 3 and the maxattempts is set to 2, on a supplicant login attempt, the authenticator will send up to three access requests to the RADIUS server before returning failure. The authenticator will then re-invoke supplicant authentication method which allows the RADIUS back end to again send up to three requests to the RADIUS server before the authenticator allows IEEE 802.1x to stop supplicant authentication and to invoke the quiet period for the supplicant. Security Commands 1044