Authentication method and device

Abstract

The invention discloses an authentication method and device. The authentication method includes the steps that a first authentication device is used for maintaining an authentication capability list; if the first authentication device is a Slave authentication device, whether the number of authentication client sides which are processed by the authentication device at present reaches the processing capability of the authentication device or not is inquired from the authentication capability list when an authentication message is received; if not, the authentication message is authenticated; if yes, a first mark is added into the authentication message, and then the authentication message is sent to a Master authentication device; if the first authentication device is the Master authentication device, when the authentication message which carries the first mark is received, the authentication message is authenticated if the number of authentication client sides which are processed at present by the authentication device does not reach the processing capability of the authentication device through the inquiry from the authentication capability list. In the embodiment of the authentication method and device, the processing loads of a convergence layer device can be reduced, and the bottleneck of network authentication is avoided.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to an authentication method and equipment. Background technique [0002] Such as figure 1 As shown, in the 802.1x authentication process, the authentication process can include: 1. The authentication client sends an EAPoL (Extensible Authentication Protocol over LAN, based on the Extensible Authentication Protocol over LAN)-Start (start) message to the authentication device to start the 802.1x Authentication access. 2. The authentication device sends an EAP-Request / Identity (request / identification) message to the authentication client, requesting the authentication client to report the user name. 3. The authentication client responds with EAP-Response (response) / Identity to the authentication device, including the user name. 4. The authentication device encapsulates the EAP-Response / Identity message into a RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service, Remote A...

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Problems solved by technology

As the number of users increases, the authentication method becomes more and more complicated. When the authentication process is implemented by a convergence layer device, the processing burden of the convergence layer device will be increased, and it will easily cause a bottleneck in network authentication, and the convergence layer device may not be able to complete the authentication process. authentication processing

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