Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Support Essentials v10.6: A Guide to Supporting and Troubleshooting Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard

This is the IEEE standard for network access control. It has these characteristics:

• Provides access control for both wired and wireless local area networks

• Is based on connection to a network rather than connection to a service

• Uses a central authentication server based on Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)