802.1x?

Ivan Voras ivoras at fer.hr
Thu Jun 24 11:33:57 PDT 2004


Bosko Milekic wrote:

> 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.

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   He has a netgraph module (perhaps a tad outdated) available.

Yes, I found that very early, but it seems very outdated. I need it to 
function on FreeBSD 5.2+


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