802.1x

Christophe Prevotaux c.prevotaux at hexanet.fr
Wed Jul 23 03:36:58 PDT 2003


AFAIK , 802.1x will only do auth and do any equivalent of VPN
if you need to crypt the transmission of the data and not only auth
then you need to do something else like PPTP , IPSEC etc...

I also would someone to make include open802.1x in the port tree
I have not seen it in there so far


On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:27:43 +0200
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net> wrote:

> On 23/07, Attila Nagy wrote:
> 
> | Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> | >Is there a 802.1x implementation (client and server) for FreeBSD
> | >-STABLE?
> | http://www.open1x.org/ ?
> | 
> | BTW, I don't really get how could FreeBSD act as a 802.1x "server". Do 
> | you mean a RADIUS server, from which the 802.1x aware devices can 
> | authenticate? Install FreeRADIUS for example.
> 
> No, I'd like my desktop PC with a PCI WiFi card to act as a 802.1x-protected
> access point instead of being wide-open.
> 
>   Sam
> 
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