Cisco Technology, Inc.

Sharon Schwartzman

Ami Schieber

Victoria Inbar

Vicktoria Inbar

A computer-implemented method is provided for processing access requests in an AAA network. The method includes receiving an access request from a network device, identifying, based upon the access request, an authentication mechanism for facilitating AAA services for the network device and selecting, based on the identified authentication mechanism, a particular server from a plurality of servers that is compatible with the identified authentication mechanism.

Selection of authentication servers based on authentication mechanisms in supplicant attempts to access network resources

Method and apparatus for selection of authentication servers based on the authentication mechanisms in supplicant attempts to access network resources

The invention provides a method and apparatus for improving reliability and availability of a load balanced server. The apparatus performs and the method provides the steps of monitoring the server's performance; detecting when the server's performance is worse than a failover threshold; and sending a message to one or more clients indicating that the one or more clients should failover to an alternate server.

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Quiryat-Mozkin, Israel

Sharon Schwartzman