[c-nsp] 802.1x - clients that go to sleep

[Phil Mayers]

On 07/02/12 13:26, Chuck Church wrote:
> Can you disable WOL on the clients?  Seems like if it was disabled in the
> BIOS, the NIC would have no reason to bring up a link when
> off/sleeping/hibernating.

One other option that springs to mind is increasing:

dot1x timeout quiet-period

...or one of the other "dot1x timeout" values. But ideally you want a 
mode where the Cisco does "passive" 802.1x - it waits until the first 
packet from the host before starting EAP-Identity transmission.