Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Suryanarayanan Devarajan

Sheausong Yang

Isaac Theogaraj

Amit Pingale

Shabaresha Hemaraju

Vinod Arjun

Kumar Puta Swamy

Kavitha Kamarthy

Examples disclosed herein relate to a method comprising receiving, at a network device, an authentication message intended for a user from an authentication server. The network device may be registered with the authentication server as a source device for the user. The method may also include determining, by the network device, a management device for the user that is the intended recipient of the authentication message. The authentication server is not configured to securely connect to the management device directly. The method may also include transmitting the authentication message from the network device to the determined management device.

Switch authentication

Examples described herein include a method and system for determining a number of controllers in a Network Authentication Server (NAS) controller cluster, wherein each of the controllers in the NAS controller cluster includes a unique Physical Internet Protocol (PIP) address; creating a number of unique Virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) addresses for use by an external authentication server (EAS) to communicate with the controllers in the NAS controller cluster, wherein the number of VIP addresses is to be proportional to the number of PIP addresses; and mapping each controller in the NAS controller cluster to a plurality of VIP addresses, wherein the VIP addresses are to have different priorities for different controllers in the NAS controller cluster.

Virtual address for controller in a controller cluster

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Suryanarayanan Devarajan