Has anyone managed to authenticate centos 5 on wired ethernet. I tried with wpa_supplicant but i won't work. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanx.
On 04/03/12 12:11 AM, Janez Kosmrlj wrote:
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?
typically, you'd use some sort of VPN for that. this still wouldn't prevent peer to peer communications across the ethernet unless all servers on said network also required some form of encryption like ipsec.
On 3/04/2012 5:48 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 04/03/12 12:11 AM, Janez Kosmrlj wrote:
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.
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