Re: [CentOS] centos 5 and 802.1x on wire

On 3/04/2012 5:48 PM, John R Pierce wrote:

On 04/03/12 12:11 AM, Janez Kosmrlj wrote:

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Has anyone managed to authenticate centos 5 on wired ethernet.

ethernet has no concept of authentication inherent in it. are you talking about some sort of router/gateway that requires authentication?

He's referring to 802.1x, which is a form of port-based network access/admission control (NAC). It uses EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol - actually EAPOL [EAP over LAN]) to require authentication before the supplicant is given access to the LAN.

That's the theory - but I've no idea how it works in practice with CentOS.