QTECH QSW-2800 Инструкция по настройке User Manual

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LAN environment, the format of EAPOL packet is illustrated in the next figure. The beginning of

the EAPOL packet is the Type/Length domain in MAC frames.

The Format of EAPOL Data Packet

PAE Ethernet Type: Represents the type of the protocol whose value is 0x888E.

Protocol Version: Represents the version of the protocol supported by the sender of EAPOL

data packets.

Type: represents the type of the EAPOL data packets, including:

EAP-Packet (whose value is 0x00): the authentication information frame, used to carry EAP

messages. This kind of frame can pass through the authenticator system to transmit EAP

messages between the supplicant system and the authentication server system.

EAPOL-Start (whose value is 0x01): the frame to start authentication.

EAPOL-Logoff (whose value is 0x02): the frame requesting to quit.

EAPOL-Key (whose value is 0x03): the key information frame.

EAPOL-Encapsulated-ASF-Alert (whose value is 0x04): used to support the Alerting messages

of ASF (Alert Standard Forum). This kind of frame is used to encapsulate the relative

information of network management such as all kinds of alerting information, terminated by

terminal devices.

Length: represen

ts the length of the data, that is, the length of the “Packet Body”, in byte.

There will be no following data domain when its value is 0.

Packet Body: represents the content of the data, which will be in different formats according to

different types.

2. The Format of EAP Data Packets

When the value of Type domain in EAPOL packet is EAP-Packet, the Packet Body is in EAP

format (illustrated in the next figure).

The Format of EAP Data Packets

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