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Hopefully the descriptions here and a comparative chart will ease the difficulties in understanding the variety of EAP types available.Įxtensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) authentication typesīecause Wi-Fi Local Area Network (WLAN) security is essential and EAP authentication types provide a potentially better means of securing the WLAN connection, vendors are rapidly developing and adding EAP authentication types to their WLAN access points. Which EAP type to implement, or whether to implement 802.1X at all, depends on the level of security that the organization needs, the administrative overhead, and features desired. The access point acting as authenticator is only a proxy to allow the supplicant and the authentication server to communicate. The EAP type actually handles and defines the authentication.