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H3C Technologies H3C WX3000E Series Wireless Switches User Manual

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Figure 61 802.1X authentication procedure in EAP termination mode

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

an MD5 challenge for password encryption (see Step 4). 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.