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• Data—Content of the EAP packet. This field appears only in a Request or Response EAP
packet. The Data field contains the request type (or the response type) and the type data. Type
1 (Identify) and type 4 (MD5-challenge) are two examples for the type field.
EAPOL packet format
Figure 24 shows the EAPOL packet format.
Figure 24 EAPOL packet format
• PAE Ethernet type—Protocol type. It takes the value 0x888E for EAPOL.
• Protocol version—The EAPOL protocol version used by the EAPOL packet sender.
• Type—Type of the EAPOL packet. Table 4 lists the types of EAPOL packets supported by
Hewlett Packard Enterprise implementation of 802.1X.
Table 4 Types of EAPOL packets
Value
Type
Description
0x00 EAP-Packet
The client and the access device use EAP-Packets to transport
authentication information.
0x01 EAPOL-Start
The client sends an EAPOL-Start message to initiate 802.1X
authentication to the access device.
0x02 EAPOL-Logoff
The client sends an EAPOL-Logoff message to tell the access
device that the client is logging off.
• Length—Data length in bytes, or length of the Packet body. If packet type is EAPOL-Start or
EAPOL-Logoff, this field is set to 0, and no Packet body field follows.
• Packet body—Content of the packet. When the EAPOL packet type is EAP-Packet, the Packet
body field contains an EAP packet.
EAP over RADIUS
RADIUS adds two attributes, EAP-Message and Message-Authenticator, for supporting EAP
authentication. For the RADIUS packet format, see "Configuring AAA."
EAP-Message
RADIUS encapsulates EAP packets in the EAP-Message attribute, as shown in Figure 25. The Type
field takes 79, and the Value field can be up to 253 bytes. If an EAP packet is longer than 253 bytes,
RADIUS encapsulates it in multiple EAP-Message attributes.
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Packet body
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Length
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