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Scenario 1--Healthy Supplicant

The steps to authenticate a healthy supplicant are:
  1. The 802.1X supplicant initiates a connection to the 802.1X network access server (NAS), which in this scenario is the Extreme Networks switch.
  2. The supplicant passes its authentication credentials to the switch using PEAP and an inner authentication method such as MS-CHAPv2.
  3. The RADIUS server requests a statement of health (SoH) from the supplicant.

    Only NAP-capable supplicants create an SoH, which contains information about whether or not the supplicant is compliant with the system health requirements defined by the network administrator.

  4. If the SoH indicates that the supplicant is healthy, the RADIUS server sends an Access-Accept message with a RADIUS VSA indicating which VLAN the healthy supplicant is moved to (in this example, the Production VLAN).
  5. The switch authenticates the supplicant and moves it into the Production VLAN.
  6. The switch sends a trap to the NMS indicating that the supplicant has been successfully authenticated and the VLAN into which it has been moved.
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