Title: RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service) Support For Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
Author(s): B. Aboba, P. Calhoun.
Status: INFORMATIONAL
Date: Sep 2003
Length: 104469
Updates: RFC2869
This document defines Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) support for the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), an authentication framework which supports multiple authentication mechanisms. In the proposed scheme, the Network Access Server (NAS) forwards EAP packets to and from the RADIUS server, encapsulated within EAP-Message attributes. This has the advantage of allowing the NAS to support any EAP authentication method, without the need for method-specific code, which resides on the RADIUS server. While EAP was originally developed for use with PPP, it is now also in use with IEEE 802.
This document updates RFC2869.
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