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RADIUS AAA Servers

What are RADIUS AAA Servers? According to Convery, S.(2007)1: “RADIUS was developed by Livingston Enterprises (now part of Alcatel-Lucent) in the early 1990s, became an Internet standard through the IETF in 1997, and today is the most widely accepted AAA protocol. Another widely adopted AAA protocol, which predates RADIUS as an RFC by four years, […]

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PPTP port: How PPTP Works

PPTP port belong to Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP). PPTP is a method for implementing virtual private networks that works on the data link layer. It serves the purpose of encrypting a remote computer’s network traffic to a host using Point-to-Point Protocol’s (PPP’s) authentication methods of PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) or CHAP (Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol). It […]

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