Hi all, I am new to WPA/802.11i and I have a few doubts. I hope you can help me. What is not clear to me is how often a supplicant needs to authenticate to the server...is it everytime the supplicant performs a L2 handoff? It seems like if the supplicant does not authenticate it does not get an IP address, so I would think that authentication would happen only when the supplicant performs L3 and not L2 handoff. Am I right? Another doubt I have is: if I am a malicious user and set a static IP address and know the key, am I able to use the network or am I blocked somehow by the authenticator? How does the authenticator know if it has to block my ports or not when I connect to the AP?
Your help is very much appreciated. Thank you. Andrea Forte - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
