8021x on wired Ethernet

Bengt Ahlgren bengt.ahlgren at ri.se
Tue May 29 09:00:06 UTC 2018


Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko at ambrisko.com> writes:

> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 02:17:21PM +0300, Zeus Panchenko wrote:
> | Bengt Ahlgren <bengt.ahlgren at ri.se> wrote:
> | > Is there a standard "rc.conf" way to configure 8021x authentication on
> | > wired ethernet?
> | 
> | looks like it's to be something like: ifconfig_em0="WPA"
>
> Yes for example;
> 	ifconfig_em0="WPA <IP address/width>"
>
> We use 802.1x at work.

Thanks Zeus and Doug, it does work!  I use ifconfig_em0="WPA DHCP".

I first thought I needed a separate wpa_supplicant.conf for wired, but
it finds the appropriate entry there anyway among many WiFis.

Bengt


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