802.1x?

Bosko Milekic bmilekic at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jun 24 12:55:39 PDT 2004


Sam Leffler wrote:
>He asked for supplicant.  Pekka's work is for the authenticator (unless I've
>forgotten).

  Pekka's work provides both the supplicant and authenticator framework.
  It had some drawbacks (multiple authenticator backends) but a lack of
  supplicant is not it.

>I've got wpa_supplicant working with a Linux version of the net80211 code and
>it includes .1x supplicant support.  I've trolled for someone to port the
>work back to FreeBSD but come up empty so far.
>
>FWIW my revised net80211 layer also includes a working .1x authenticator.
>
>        Sam

  I might be updating Pekka's work at the DayJob, but am not sure yet.

-Bosko



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