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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1997
Chihuan Michael Lin, Chandler, AZ (US);
John R. Mitkowski, Mesa, AZ (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
What is disclosed is a method having the first step of receiving, on a routing manager port address, a set of accounting request packets from a network access server having a network access server port address. Then, parsing the accounting request packet to derive a command flag and forwarding the set of accounting request packets to an authentication server, having an authentication server port address, over the authentication server port address. The method includes the further step of generating a set of routing table modification commands for a network router based on the command flag. What is also disclosed is an apparatus having a network access server, an authentication server coupled to the network access server, and a routing manager coupled to the network access server and the authentication server. The network access server has a network access server port address, the authentication server has an authentication server port address, and the routing manager has a routing manager port address. The routing manager is configured to: (1) receive, on the routing manager port address, a set of accounting request packets from the network access server port address; (2) parse the accounting request packet to derive a command flag; (3) forward the set of accounting request packets and to the authentication server port address; and (4) generate a set of routing table modification commands for a network router based on the command flag.