802.1X authenticator for FreeBSD

Peter Ankerstål peter at pean.org
Wed Oct 18 17:10:10 UTC 2017


> 
> I’m under the impression that the authenticator function in a wired network is usually part of the switch, and the switch will talk to some authentication server like RADIUS, giving it the port number of the connected device and additional information.
> 
> If FreeBSD had such a function, I think it would be limited to point-to-point Ethernet links, 802.1x being a link-layer protocol.
> 

Yes I know, but this is functional in hostapd for Linux and it would be nice to have it in FreeBSD as well. 

Thanks anyway!


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