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Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015

Filed:

Jul. 06, 2011
Applicants:

Navindra Yadav, Cupertino, CA (US);

Atul Mahamuni, Fremont, CA (US);

Jonathan Hui, Foster City, CA (US);

Alec Woo, Union City, CA (US);

Inventors:

Navindra Yadav, Cupertino, CA (US);

Atul Mahamuni, Fremont, CA (US);

Jonathan Hui, Foster City, CA (US);

Alec Woo, Union City, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0884 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques are provided for adaptive routing of authentication packets in a network, such as a wireless mesh network. At an authenticated device in the network, an authentication packet is received over the network from a device that is seeking authentication. The authentication packet is encapsulated for transmission in Layer 3 packets over an Internet Protocol (IP) tunnel to an authenticator device associated in the network. Similarly, for an authentication packet encapsulated in Layer 3 packets from the authenticator device over the IP tunnel, the authentication packet is decapsulated from the Layer 3 packets and transmitted over the network to the device seeking authentication.


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