摘要:
A method to grant a supplicant access to a data communication network and related devices is claimed. A first supplicant is associated to a Medium Access Control address and is coupled to a first port of an authenticator of the data communication network. The method comprises: a step of transmitting an authentication request by the authenticator to an authentication server being coupled thereto; and a step of making by the authentication server an authentication decision based upon predefined rules and conditions; and a step of transmitting by the authentication server the authenticator an authentication reply that comprises a result of the authentication decision. The method further comprises a step of developing by the authentication server a first registration memory that comprises entries whereby an entry comprises an association between a Medium Access Control Address of a granted supplicant and a granted password, the granted supplicant received previously a grant to the data communication network. The predefined rules and conditions comprises a first controlling step of the first registration memory upon a presence of a previous entry that comprises a first association between the first Medium Access Control Address of the first supplicant and a first password for the supplicant. In the event when the first controlling step is positive the method further comprises generating a result that comprises an authentication for the first Medium Access Control address the first password and thereby granting the first supplicant to access the data communication network via the first port of the authenticator.
摘要:
A method for control of communications from an edge device (ED1) of an access network (AN), via the provisioning or the non-provisioning of at least one layer 2 destination address (MAC2) of at least one other edge device (ED2) of said access network (AN) to said edge device (ED1) by a network management module (NMM) of said access network (AN), is characterised by the fact that said at least one layer 2 destination address (MAC2) is delivered to said edge device (ED1) on request of said edge device (ED1). In a preferred embodiment said edge device (ED1) checks, upon arrival of a packet including at least one layer 2 destination address, whether said at least one layer 2 destination address is stored within a communications restriction filter (CRF) of said edge device (ED1) and generates said request including said at least one layer 2 destination address in case said at least one layer 2 destination address is not stored within said communication restriction filter (CRF).
摘要:
Methods for transmitting information from sources (7) via first network units (1) and networks (8) and second network units (2) to destinations (9) and using service identifiers such as service virtual local area network identifiers for routing the information through the networks (8) get a reduced complexity by making the service identifiers dependent on destination properties such as destination addresses and by making the service identifiers independent from source properties such as source addresses or customer identifiers. Network units (1,2) comprising customer parts (5) with customer access ports (10) and customer interface ports (11-13) and comprising service parts (6) with service interface ports (21-23) coupled to the customer interface ports (11-13) and service network ports (20) coupled to the service interface ports (21-23) and comprising taggers (62) are provided with detectors (52) for detecting destination properties in the information and selectors (53) for selecting the service identifiers in response to detections of the destination properties.