Patent ID: 6721555
Filing Date: 2004-04-13
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
A system for efficiently accommodating an authentication protocol in a communications system comprising:first means for establishing a first communications interface between a first device and a second device and for establishing a second communications interface between said second device and a third device; second means for selectively relaying authentication signals received by said second device between said first device and said third device, the second means including a first interface packet relaying system for receiving data packets from the first communication interface and a second interface packet relaying system for receiving data packets from the second communications interface, the first and second interface packet relaying systems determining whether a received data packet is an authentication packet or a configuration packet; and third means in communication with said third device and said second means for authenticating said first device via a first communications link and a second communications link, wherein the second means transmits the received data packet determined to be an authentication packet to the first communication interface or to the second communication interface without performing network model processing on the authentication packet.