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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2010
Kathryn Degraaf, Northboro, MA (US);
Paul Raison, Windham, NH (US);
John Liddy, Gardner, MA (US);
John C. Scano, Dracut, MA (US);
Sanjay Wadhwa, Acton, MA (US);
Kathryn DeGraaf, Northboro, MA (US);
Paul Raison, Windham, NH (US);
John Liddy, Gardner, MA (US);
John C. Scano, Dracut, MA (US);
Sanjay Wadhwa, Acton, MA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An example network device includes network interfaces and a control unit that receives a network configuration request from a client device and sends a network configuration response to the client device. The control unit comprises a network configuration protocol module that generates an authentication request in accordance with a network authentication protocol such that the authentication request includes a request for a second set of network configuration parameters based on a request for a first set of network configuration parameters in the network configuration request, and generates the network configuration response in accordance with the network configuration protocol, wherein the network configuration response is based on an authentication response generated by a second network device in accordance with the network authentication protocol, wherein the authentication response comprises a third set of network configuration parameters based on the request for the second set of network configuration parameters.