Thanks Dan. That was really useful information.
So, this seems somewhat like a WPA/WPA2-Enterprise WIFI network situation. However, I still wonder (no offense to you please ...), as to there _must_ be some authentication somewhere; for as it currently stands that NSP is publically available (much like SSID of a typical WIFI network); but unlike WPA/WPA-Enterprise, there is no authentication at user-level, thereby meaning that the network is open to be connected by anyone (unless of course that is what WiMax aims to achieve ;-) ) Thanks a ton to you all (Thomas, David, Dan) !!! Regards, Ajay On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Dan Williams <d...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 17:20 +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: >> Ahh.. Thanks; and sorry, I missed that table earlier. >> >> Regarding the security protocols for Wimax, I'll read on.. > > There's nothing to specify for WiMAX since that's all handled on a lower > level, at least with all the hardware that's out there right now and > compatible with Linux. The current NM code only supports the Intel > "wimaxd" software and Intel i2400m WiMAX hardware since that's the only > WiMAX stack that's freely available on Linux. > > The only relevant settings for WiMAX are currently the MAC address, to > lock to a specific WiMAX device, and the NSP name. The wimaxd daemon > itself handles any security that might be required based on it's > configuration file and stored list of NSP configurations. I think it > supports EAP-TLS and EAP-TTLS which are (I believe) the de-facto > standard auth protocols for most mobile wimax networks. > > Dan > >> Thanks and Regards, >> Ajay >> >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:05 PM, David Röthlisberger <da...@rothlis.net> >> wrote: >> > On 12 Mar 2012, at 11:06, Ajay Garg wrote: >> >> Thanks David for the reply. >> >> >> >> What I meant something was to "add a wimax connection" (something >> >> along the lines of >> >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/examples/python/add-system-wifi-connection.py). >> >> >> >> Unless of course, Wimax is a sub-type of Wifi; i.e. Wimax has same >> >> settings (security types for example) as for Wifi. >> >> >> >> Kindly enlighten :) >> > >> > Your original question that I was attempting to answer: >> > >> >> what about the specs page for 0.9 (on similar lines as >> >> http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/api/08/settings-spec-08.html), >> >> especially for WiMax related settings? >> > >> > >> > The exact same page you linked, but for 0.9 instead of 0.8, is: >> > http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/api/09/ref-settings.html >> > Table 13 show the wimax settings. >> > >> > Beyond that I am afraid I am not able to help. I don't actually know >> > anything about NetworkManager and WiMax -- I just thought that link might >> > help you. :-) >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> networkmanager-list mailing list >> networkmanager-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list