HealthOne, Inc. provides wireless connectivity in its clinic facilities for staff access to internal network resources. The wireless security policy specifies that the staff must perform user-based authentication with a special back-end authentication server before they are allowed to access the WLAN. Which technology should be chosen in the WLAN implementation to meet this requirement?

IT Questions Bank › Category: CCNP › HealthOne, Inc. provides wireless connectivity in its clinic facilities for staff access to internal network resources. The wireless security policy specifies that the staff must perform user-based authentication with a special back-end authentication server before they are allowed to access the WLAN. Which technology should be chosen in the WLAN implementation to meet this requirement?

Explanation: Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is an authentication framework that supports multiple authentication mechanisms without having to pre-negotiate a particular one. EAP authentication is initiated by the server (authenticator), whereas many other authentication protocols are initiated by the client (peer).

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