> > Nortel (untested) > > > Are Notel still in buisiness ? I heard they invested heavily in mobile > interweb and went bust.
No, they're still in business. The products we looked at recently are fairly new. > > > > You really want to be looking for a few key differentiators such as: > > > > * can the device support 802.1x & mac-based fallback at the same time? > > > Yes !!! > The issue that I have with most of the current switches, is that they > can't fallback to mac based auth... Really? I didn't do the testing personally, but I'm fairly sure most of the ones we tested did support it. Certainly 3Com, Cisco and Extreme do. > > * can the device authenticate >1 client on a port? > > * if so, can it support 802.1x for one and mac-based for another (think > > IP phones) > > > This would come under fallback. Not necessarily - some devices can fallback, but only in a mode with permits 1 mac per port. > > * if so, can it assign separate untagged vlans to each client? > > * can the device assign IP ACLs from Radius replies? > > * can the device assign 1 untagged and >1 tagged vlans (think wlan aps) > > > I don't think many will allow you to assign multiple tagged VLANS, most > centre around assigning one untagged VLAN... though that would be a very > neat feature. Extreme can. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html