802.1x?

[Bosko Milekic]

Ivan Voras wrote:
>Is there any way for a FreeBSD machine to be a supplicant in 802.1x
>authorisation scheme? Open1x project has abandoned support for FreeBSD (not
>that they had any) and googling around turns up only old information.
>
>My situation is that I need it for authorisation "over the wire" - not on a
>wireless adapter but over ethernet (and then to a RADIUS server I
>presume...).

  Take a look at Pekka Nikander's paper from Usenix02:

  Pekka Nikander, "Authorization and charging in public WLANs using
  FreeBSD and 802.1x," in Proceedings of the Freenix track: 2002 USENIX
  Annual Technical Conference, Monterey, CA, June 10-15, 2002. 

  http://www.tml.hut.fi/~pnr/publications/Freenix2002-Nikander.pdf

  He has a netgraph module (perhaps a tad outdated) available.

Regards,
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Bosko Milekic
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