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Questions tagged [ieee802.1x]

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802.1X: What EXACTLY is it regarding WPA and EAP?

I understand 802.1X to be some sort of port authentication control. However, when I was checking out the encryption settings for my wireless I found 802.1X in a drop down along with WPA2, WPA and WEP, but I don't see how it can be an alternative for…
Jason
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How can I download the certificate of a wireless AP using 802.1X?

As far as I understand, wireless access points using WPA-Enterprise (i.e. WPA plus 802.1X) can send a public key certificate to a client during connection setup. The client can verify this certificate to make sure it is not connecting to a rogue AP…
sleske
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What's the maximum file transfer speed over WiFi 802.11g?

What's the maximum transfer speed you get, (or I can get) for files transfer between two wifi-connected computers ? Im on computer A trying to copy a big file from computer B, they are side by side (on adhoc network) and I can't get more than 800…
user8228
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Make wpa_supplicant ignore server certificate trust

How do I make wpa_supplicant accept any server certificate for PEAP MSCHAPv2 without having to manually put the public key in the client config?
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Does 802.1X and RADIUS prevent rogue APs?

I was discussing with a colleague today and he seemed to think that if you use 802.1X it allows users to realise if they are connecting to a rogue access point. I dont understand this though, surely if you believe a rogue access point was the…
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MySQL MAC Address Authentication with freeRadius

I have freeRadius up and running with the mysql extension. Currently I am authenticating devices using their mac-address which is stored in a text file (as per http://wiki.freeradius.org/Mac-Auth). I would like to move the mac-addresses in to a…
Zack S.
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How can I tell if my wired ethernet connection is using 802.1X authentication on Windows 7?

From a command prompt (or a script) I'd like to be able to query the wired interface to determine if it has succesfully established an 802.1X connection, or if it has fallen back to unauthenticated access or not. I am doing 802.1X testing in a lab…
Mick
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SecureW2 equivalent on Linux

I'm studying at the HAN (Hogeschool Arnhem & Nijmegen) in the Netherlands, where we have a wireless network that is secured with SecureW2 (IEEE 802.1x). The SecureW2 client is not available for Linux, so I'm trying to get the config right myself. On…
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Is it possible to setup and switch multiple wired IEEE802.1X authentication profiles in windows 7?

In Windows 7, I use two IEEE802.1X wired network authentitication settings which I have to change by hand, since every time I switch the configuration, the old one is lost. (In Linux this is trivially handled by the wpa-supplicant)
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How to use windows pcap api on windows 7?

I want to implement a 802.1X wireless client in windows 7 using PEAP/MSCHAPv2. The 802.1X protocol is a datalink layer protocol, it uses the EAPOL protocol to encapsulate the packets. However, I don't know what lib can I use to send the EAPOL…
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WLAN probe requests' content

I've monitored my home Wifi to check if any of my devices (Windows PC, Linux PC, Samsung phone, iPhone) would send Probe Requests containing the SSID of my home router even if the router is turned off. By analyzing Wireshark output I notice that my…
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802.1X and 802.11- can you prevent a rogue access point from the start?

Does the authentication mechanism of 802.1X assume that you have already initially connected to the trusted network? What's puzzling me is that if I set up a cloned access point to fool users into connecting through me, if they connected to me…
Brad
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Setting up 802.1X wireless connection on OSX

I am an OSX user, I have Snow Leopard 10.6.5 and an updated AirPort (version 5.5.2). I am trying to connect to my university's wireless network, but it has a 802.1x security that I am having trouble defining... Here there are instructions for…
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ath11k-pci: qcn9074: Use Regulatory Domain data from regulatory.db instead of wifi adapter's EEPROM

I'm using OpenWrt 23.05.05 (i compiled it for my custom system) and have two WiFi chips (QCN9074) that use the ath11k_pci driver. I also have a regulatory.db file located in /lib/firmware. I want to use this file as the source of regulatory data for…
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802.1x authenticator for wired clients

I am trying to set up an 802.1x authentication. I have Linux running in a PC which I wanted to use as an 802.1x authenticator and I am connecting a Windows PC to it which will be the supplicant. I am looking for an open-source 802.1x authenticator…
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