Provided is a traffic authentication apparatus using information on a header of a packet for traffic authentication. The apparatus includes a call admission control agent receiving a call admission request from a calling terminal; a network controller determining whether to approve the call admission request received by the call admission control agent and obtaining call information from the call admission request; and a networking unit which, when the networking unit receives traffic from the calling terminal, compares information on the header of a packet of the traffic with the call information received from the network controller and authenticates the traffic.