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AssigneeArista Networks, Inc.
InventorsSantosh Shrimant Ukkali, Ramakrishnan Nurani Kalyanakrishnan, Kaustav Majumdar
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Embodiments include systems and methods for authenticating hosts. Server groups that include authentication servers can be mapped to target supplicants based on, for example, network interface, VLAN, device type or another factor. An authenticator can receive an authentication request from a supplicant, identify that the supplicant is a target supplicant for a server group (e.g., by virtue of connecting to a particular network interface, using a particular VLAN, having particular device type, or being associated with another factor that defines a target set of supplicants for the server group) and authenticate the supplicant using an authentication server from the server group. A network device can thus segregate supplicants for authentication/accounting/ authorization with designated server groups.
A method for authenticating hosts, comprising:
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions translatable by a processor of a network device to implement, on the network device, an agent for:
A network device comprising:
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