To allow configuration of an authenticator independently of its administrative status, the table should depend on capability bits rather than administrative status: ieee8021XAuthenticatorTable OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF Ieee8021XAuthenticatorEntry MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION “A table that contains the configuration objects for the Authenticator PAE associated with each port. This table will be instantiated if the value of the object ieee8021XPaePortCapabilities in the corresponding entry of the ieee8021XPaePortTable has the bit ‘authImplemented’ On. For the writeable objects in this table, the configured value shall be stored in persistent memory and remain unchanged across a re-initialization of the management system of the entity.” REFERENCE “802.1X Clause 8, Figure 12-3” ::= { ieee8021XPaeAuthenticator 1 }