Yealink Technical White Paper 802.1X Authentication
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network administrator.
Contact Yealink FAE for support when the above steps cannot solve your problem.
a)
Capture the packet and export configurations of the phone, switch and
authentication server.
b)
Provide the related information to Yealink FAE.
Appendix A: Glossary
IEEE
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
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A professional association headquartered
in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence.
802.1X –
A port-based network access control, meaning it only provides an authentication
mechanism for devices wishing to attach to a LAN.
EAP
(Extensible Authentication Protocol)
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An authentication framework which supports multiple
authentication methods.
TLS
(Transport Layer Security)
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Provides for mutual authentication, integrity-protected cipher
suite negotiation between two endpoints.
MD5
(Message-Digest Algorithm)
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Only provides authentication of the EAP peer for the EAP
server but not mutual authentication.
PEAP
(Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol)
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A protocol that encapsulates the EAP
within an encrypted and authenticated TLS tunnel.
MSCHAPv2
(Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol version 2)
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Provides for
mutual authentication, but does not require a supplicant-side certificate.
TTLS
(Tunneled Transport Layer Security) –Extends TLS to improve some weak points, but it
does not require a supplicant-side certificate.
EAPOL
(Extensible Authentication Protocol over Local Area Network)
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A delivery mechanism
and doesn’t provide the actual authentication mechanisms.
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