A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING MULTICAST AUTHENTICATION

摘要

The embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for implementing multicast authentication. The method mainly includes: a switch device receives the authentication result of the multicast authentication, and acquires the user's right information included in the authentication result; The switch device saves the right information, and controls the multicast stream needed to be sent to the user depending on the right information. The apparatus mainly includes a switch device, and the switch device includes: a right information acquirement module, for receiving the authentication result of the multicast authentication sent by other network devices and acquiring the user's right information included in the authentication result; A right information saving module, for saving the corresponding relationship between each user and the user' right information depending on the right information acquired by the user right information acquirement module. Using the invention, multicast authenticating users in access networks and controlling the multicast service received by users can be implemented.