CentOS - Apr 2012 - centos 5 and 802.1x on wire

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.


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john r pierce                            N 37, W 122
santa cruz ca                         mid-left coast

On Tuesday, April 03, 2012 03:48:27 AM John R Pierce
wrote:
> ethernet has no concept of authentication inherent in it.  
See packetfence and 802.1x used together with the appropriate ethernet switch.