https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/wlan-session-timeout/m-p/2991179#M216863 <P>Was told it's best ISE practice to configure session timeout of something &gt; 7200 sec (2+ hours).</P> <P>What if we don't enable session timeout at all? (WLAN/Advanced, "Enable Session Timeout" )</P> <P>What would be the security/operation implication, if any?</P> <P>Does that mean client would only need to authenticate once, and can stay on, w/o having to go through 802.1x authentication the whole day?</P> <P>Is there a default session timeout value?</P> <P></P> Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:03:03 GMT CSCO10662744_2 2021-07-05T13:03:03Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/wlan-session-timeout/m-p/2991179#M216863 <P>Was told it's best ISE practice to configure session timeout of something &gt; 7200 sec (2+ hours).</P> <P>What if we don't enable session timeout at all? (WLAN/Advanced, "Enable Session Timeout" )</P> <P>What would be the security/operation implication, if any?</P> <P>Does that mean client would only need to authenticate once, and can stay on, w/o having to go through 802.1x authentication the whole day?</P> <P>Is there a default session timeout value?</P> <P></P> Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:03:03 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/wlan-session-timeout/m-p/2991179#M216863 CSCO10662744_2 2021-07-05T13:03:03Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/wlan-session-timeout/m-p/2991180#M216864 <P>Here is a post on those timeout parameters</P> <P><A href="https://rscciew.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/timeout-setting-on-wireless-lan-controller/">https://rscciew.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/timeout-setting-on-wireless-lan-controller/</A></P> <P></P> <P>As far as I understand, larger session timeout values could lead to your wireless stats bit skew. Otherwise there is no adverse impact of increasing it.</P> <P></P> <P>HTH</P> <P>Rasika</P> <P>*** Pls rate all useful responses ***</P> Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:05:36 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/wireless/wlan-session-timeout/m-p/2991180#M216864 Rasika Nayanajith 2016-10-27T19:05:36Z