[CentOS] centos 5 and 802.1x on wire
Les Bell
lesbell at lesbell.com.au
Tue Apr 3 08:02:47 UTC 2012
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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--- Les Bell
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