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LANCOM ES-2126+ and LANCOM ES-2126P+
Chapter 4: Operation of Web- based Management
In this figure is the typical configuration, a single supplicant, an authenticator
and an authentication server. B and C is in the internal network, D is Authen-
tication server running RADIUS, switch at the central location acts Authenti-
cator connecting to PC A and A is a PC outside the controlled port, running
Supplicant PAE. In this case, PC A wants to access the services on device B and
C, first, it must exchange the authentication message with the authenticator
on the port it connected via EAPOL packet. The authenticator transfers the
supplicant's credentials to Authentication server for verification. If success,
the authentication server will notice the authenticator the grant. PC A, then,
is allowed to access B and C via the switch. If there are two switches directly
connected together instead of single one, for the link connecting two swit-
ches, it may have to act two port roles at the end of the link: authenticator
and supplicant, because the traffic is bi-directional.
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