Re: LEAP, and other EAPs.

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 13:20 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:

> > >
> > > Second, if NM advertises it supports LEAP it should support LEAP. Until
> > > last week it did not at least on Fedora 7.
> > 
> > It did support it but a patch broke it, it wasn't caught since you
> > can't test LEAP without Cisco AP's or a LEAP network which none of the
> > dev's have access to.
> > 
> > >
> > > Third, I am now informed that NM supports PEAP and other EAPs. Does it?
> > > Has anyone actually tried it? I hope so. In addition this ability is
> > > pretty well hidden in the lists of options that nm-applet displays. I
> > > would probably not have found it if Darren Albers had showed me how.
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > I have used PEAP and EAP-TLS successfully before.  It isn't really
> > hidden, it is under connect to other network....   If NM detects a
> > network using EAP then the PEAP or EAP-TLS options are shown.  If your
> > network is not broadcasting and you need to select the options
> > manually you will need to select connect to other network so I /think/
> > all the places you would need to find it are covered.
> > 
> > As Dan stated in an earlier post LEAP was different because you can't
> > tell if it is just a normal WEP network or a LEAP network.
> 
> I don't think LEAP networks set the "privacy" bit (ie, the WEP bit) in
> the beacon, which means you can't tell between LEAP or unencrypted
> networks.  That's the same with 802.1x+Dynamic WEP too.
> 
> Dan
> 
Ok, I keep learning new things and that is good.
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