摘要 |
A Network Policy Controller (NPC, 2) authenticates a communication session between a client (10) and an external network (eg. HTML webpage provider 8) by appending a session identifier (SID) and media access address (MAC) to a data packet (9) to a remote authentication server (4) which provides the client with a user ID and password login webpage (fig. 3). Upon successfully validating the predetermined password data, the required webpage resource is delivered to the client. |