topic RE: NAC 802.1x authentication with Assessment bandwidth usage per end system in ExtremeWireless (General)

NAC 802.1x authentication with Assessment bandwidth usage per end system

Marlon — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:12:00 GMT

hi,

what is the approximate bandwidth usage once nac authenticate and assess the end system? we have agent based assessment with 6-8 test case. thanks

regards,
Marlon

RE: NAC 802.1x authentication with Assessment bandwidth usage per end system

M_Nees — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:50:00 GMT

Hi Marlon,

i think you do not need to take care about bandwith usage based on Authentication and Assessment on a client port.

802.1x exchange a few EAPoL Pakets for PEAP or EAP-TLS. Assessment exchange some SSL based TCP Traffic from Assessment Agent to NAC Gateway and vice versa.

This is not nothing compare to the login traffic of the client.

Regards,
Matthias

RE: NAC 802.1x authentication with Assessment bandwidth usage per end system

Bin — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 09:05:00 GMT

Hi Marlon, agreed with Matthias.
The agent based solution is a host based software agent which resides on the connecting End-System. The agent will report back to the server(NAC) the current level of compliance of the end-system.

Best regards,

RE: NAC 802.1x authentication with Assessment bandwidth usage per end system

Marlon — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 16:22:00 GMT

Thanks a lot!