reauth-period

Configure the interval at which clients connected to MAC authentication-enabled ports and 802.1X authentication-enabled ports are periodically reauthenticated.
Syntax
reauth-period seconds
no reauth-periodseconds
Command Default

The re-authentication period is 3600 seconds.

Parameters
seconds
Sets the re-authentication period. The range is 1 through 4294967295 seconds.
Modes

Authentication configuration mode

Usage Guidelines

While the re-authentication command configures periodic re-authentication using the default interval of 3600 seconds, the reauth-period command allows you to specify a value in seconds.

The reauthentication interval configured using the reauth-period command can be overwritten for each client by the RADIUS server through the Session-Tmeout and Termination-Action attributes.

The no form of this command reverts the re-authentication period to the default interval of 3600 seconds.

Examples

The following example configures periodic re-authentication with an interval of 2,000 seconds. 

device(config)# authentication
device(config-authen)# re-authentication
device(config-authen)# reauth-period 2000
History
Release version Command history
08.0.20 This command was introduced.
08.0.40a Reauthentication support was added to MAC authentication-enabled ports.
08.0.30j Reauthentication support was added to MAC authentication-enabled ports.
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