Apparatus and system effectively using a plurality of authentication servers
AssigneeAlaxala Networks Corporation
InventorsHidemitsu HIGUCHI, Motohide NOMI
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Abstract
A communication apparatus including: a plurality of physical ports to be coupled to different terminals via a network; a plurality of authentication processing units configured to execute an authentication process; and a controller configured to determine which one of the physical ports on which a packet was received from a terminal, to specify a preset authentication process corresponding to the determined physical port on which a packet was received, and to distribute the specified authentication process of the packet from the terminal to an authentication processing unit for executing.
Claims17
A communication apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of physical ports to be coupled to different terminals via a network;
- a plurality of authentication processing units configured to execute an authentication process;
- and
- a controller configured to determine which one of the physical ports on which a packet was received from a terminal, to specify a preset authentication process corresponding to the determined physical port on which a packet was received, and to distribute the specified authentication process of the packet from the terminal to an authentication processing unit for executing.
A communication apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of physical ports coupleable to different terminals via a network;
- a plurality of authentication processing units each of which is configured to execute at least one of MAC authentication, 802.1X authentication and a web authentication;
- and
- a memory;
- wherein:
- the memory stores information indicating that each one of the physical ports is associated with at least one of MAC authentication, 802. 1X authentication and a web authentication without relation to a port number which specifies an authentication protocol in TCP/UDP;
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- in response to receiving a packet on one of the physical ports from a terminal, at least one of MAC authentication, 802.1X authentication and a web authentications is executed for the packet by one of the authentication processing units, based on that which one of authentication processes is associated with the physical port on which the packet is received.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.