Patent ID: 8037514

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a server list as part of a first security exchange, wherein the server list is received by a first network device, the first network device acts as a supplicant in the first security exchange, the server list comprises network addresses of two or more security servers, including a first network address of a first security server and a second network address of a second security server, and the server list identifies the first security server as having a higher priority than the second security server; and communicating with the first security server of the two or more security servers as part of a second security exchange, using information in the server list, wherein the first network device acts as an authenticator to a second network device in the second security exchange, the communicating comprises sending a packet to the first network address of the first security server, and the communicating is performed by the first network device; and sending the server list during the second security exchange, wherein the first network device performs the sending to the second network device.