(a) How does an EAP session start?
(b) What types of messages carry requests for authentication information and responses to these requests?
(c) Describe how the central authentication server tells the authenticator that the supplicant is acceptable.
(d) How does the authenticator pass this information on to the supplicant?
(e) In what sense is EAP extensible?
(f) When a new authentication method is added, what device software must be changed to use the new method?
(g) Why is there no need to change the operation of the authenticator when a new EAP authentication method is added or an old EAP authentication mode is dropped?
(h) Why is this freedom from the need to make changes in the switch beneficial?