Patent ID: 7917621

Claim:
A network system comprising: a client; a layer-2 switch accommodating a plurality of VLANs to any one of which the client belongs; a layer-3 switch accommodating the plurality of VLANs; an authentication server coupled to the layer-3 switch; and a quarantine server coupled to the layer-3 switch; wherein: the quarantine server performs layer-3 quarantine of the client after layer-2 authentication of the client in the authentication server is successful; and the layer-2 switch modifies the VLAN accommodating the client according to VLAN modifying instructions from the quarantine server after the client is confirmed to be normal by the layer-3 quarantine, wherein further the VLAN modifying instruction indicates a change of a VLAN from a first VLAN to a second VLAN to which the client belongs, the layer-2 switch accommodates the client in the second VLAN accommodating only clients confirmed by layer-3 quarantine as being normal according to the VLAN modification instructions from the quarantine server, and the layer-3 switch discards frames if the source layer-2 address thereof is not the address of the layer-3 switch itself.