Re: NM and 802.1x ?

[Paul Ionescu <i_p_a_u_l yahoo com>]

Hi Dan,

This is great news.
We can use this for both wireless and wired
connections.
I can help testing on wired connections ( with Cisco
switch + maybe FreeRadius ).

Thanks,
Paul

--- Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 17:48 +0200, Paul Ionescu
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Should we support 802.1x networks (use xsupplicant
> or something else)?
> > Currently FC3 does not support this by default,
> but maybe it will be in
> > FC4.
> 
> Paul,
> 
> Yes, we're planning on doing that.  John Palmieri is
> looking into
> wpa_supplicant support.  I've had a conversation
> with the author of that
> package and we'll be submitting patches so that
> wpa_supplicant can do
> what NetworkManager needs (which frankly is that
> wpa_supplicant does
> _way_ too much stuff on its own that we need to add
> switches for so we
> can turn that stuff off and use it in "dumb" mode).
> 
> Dan
> 
> 



	
		
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