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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2007
Anthony Chow, San Gabriel, CA (US);
Minka Nikolova, West Hills, CA (US);
L. Michele Goodwin, Westlake Village, CA (US);
Vincent Vermeulen, Newbury Park, CA (US);
Anthony Chow, San Gabriel, CA (US);
Minka Nikolova, West Hills, CA (US);
L. Michele Goodwin, Westlake Village, CA (US);
Vincent Vermeulen, Newbury Park, CA (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A method comprises an operation for facilitating authentication of a client device attempting to connect to a port of a network element. Facilitating authentication includes determining whether the client device is configured for being authenticated using a first authentication mechanism and, in response to determining that the client device is not configured for being authenticated using the first authentication mechanism, determining whether the client device is configured for being authenticated using at least one other authentication mechanism. For each one of the authentication mechanisms, an operation is provided for providing the client device with network connectivity dependent upon a respective first classification policy structure in response to the client device being successfully authenticated and an operation is provided for providing the client device with network connectivity dependent upon a respective second classification policy structure different that the first classification policy structure in response to the client device failing to be successfully authenticated.