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AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorShinya IWASHITA
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A network device includes a plurality of network interfaces respectively connected to a plurality of authentication servers that reside on different communication networks; and circuitry to: in response to reception of an authentication request from an information processing apparatus, select one of the plurality of authentication servers to be a transmission destination of the authentication request, based on condition information associated with the plurality of network interfaces; transmit the authentication request to the selected authentication server using one of the plurality of networks associated with the selected authentication server, and control transmission of authentication information to the information processing apparatus, based on an authentication result received from the selected authentication server in response to the authentication request.
A network device comprising:
An authentication method performed by a network device provided with a plurality of network interfaces respectively connected to a plurality of authentication servers that reside on different communication networks, the method comprising:
A non-transitory recording medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause a network device to perform an authentication method, the network device provided with a plurality of network interfaces respectively connected to a plurality of authentication servers that reside on different communication networks, the method comprising:
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