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Station Ageout Time

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  • 1.  Station Ageout Time

    Posted Sep 05, 2013 09:11 AM

    I am looking at the values which I have set for the Station Ageout time in my SSID Profiles.

    It is currently set at 500sec which I believe to be the default value.

     

    Because I have a lot of BYOD clients on this SSID which go to sleep frequently I am considering increasing the ageout time to a higher value.  Perhaps as high as 30min.

     

    Is there any reason that I should not do this?

     

    Cheers,

     

     



  • 2.  RE: Station Ageout Time
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    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Sep 05, 2013 09:37 AM

    No...that shoud be ok.  Especially at only 30 min.



  • 3.  RE: Station Ageout Time

    Posted Oct 15, 2013 10:50 AM

    How high could one go with this before there are negative consequences?  I'm having issues with a client guest network where guest are having to re-auth via captive portal sooner than they would like (mobile devices go to sleep, and upon wake, re-auth).  Is increasing [Station-Ageout Time] the best approach, or would increasing [User Idle Timeout] be a better choice?



  • 4.  RE: Station Ageout Time

    Posted Feb 20, 2014 12:06 PM

    Thanks versatech,

     

    I like this option better as it will allow me to assign an idle timeout value as a RADIUS attribute to each user-role.

    This way I can age out un-authenticated stations in the guest-logon role quickly and allow my authenticated users a much longer idle time.