Re: General question on Radius/802.1x

2004-11-19 Thread Andrea G. Forte
Thank you all for your help. Andrea -- Andrea G. Forte On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Joe Matuscak wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Andrea G. Forte wrote: > > > The assumption made here is that the authenticator is the AP. I believe > > things would be much easier and still safe if one authenticator would

Re: General question on Radius/802.1x

2004-11-18 Thread Joe Matuscak
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Andrea G. Forte wrote: > The assumption made here is that the authenticator is the AP. I believe > things would be much easier and still safe if one authenticator would > control a group of APs and not just be one itself. This group of APs > could be a subnet or a smaller grou

RE: General question on Radius/802.1x

2004-11-18 Thread Guy Davies
> The assumption made here is that the authenticator is the AP. > I believe things would be much easier and still safe if one > authenticator would control a group of APs and not just be > one itself. This group of APs could be a subnet or a smaller > group, but at least within this group the h

Re: General question on Radius/802.1x

2004-11-18 Thread Andrea G. Forte
> >>The supplicant needs to authenticate anytime it wishes to get L2 access. > >>It is an extention of the Authenticate & Associate MAC processes. > >Why the authentication is done every single time L2 handoff occurs? > >Usually for 802.11b, I can cover a building > >floor with about two or three

Re: General question on Radius/802.1x

2004-11-17 Thread David Mitton
On 11/18/2004 12:20 AM, Andrea G. Forte wrote: On 11/17/2004 11:01 AM, Andrea G. Forte wrote: 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 perf

Re: General question on Radius/802.1x

2004-11-17 Thread Andrea G. Forte
On 11/17/2004 11:01 AM, Andrea G. Forte wrote: 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? The supplicant needs to auth

Re: General question on Radius/802.1x

2004-11-17 Thread David Mitton
On 11/17/2004 11:01 AM, Andrea G. Forte wrote: 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? The supplicant needs to authe