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H3C Technologies H3C S6300 Series Switches User Manual

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Figure 29 802.1X authentication procedure in EAP termination mode

In EAP termination mode, the network access device rather than the authentication server generates an

MD5 challenge for password encryption. The network access device then sends the MD5 challenge

together with the username and encrypted password in a standard RADIUS packet to the RADIUS server.