Definitions for "Supplicant"
Entreating; asking submissively.
One who supplicates; a suppliant.
someone who prays to God
Keywords:  authenticated, ieee, client, seeks, lan
The client role in an 802.1X-authenticated network.
The client in a wireless authentication session. See 802.1X.
The term supplicant is used in the IEEE 802.1X standard, where the supplicant is an entity at one end of a point-to-point LAN segment that seeks to be authenticated by an authenticator attached to the other end of that link.