From: Jonathan V Hays (jhays@jtan.com)
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 19:31:53 GMT-3
Good question, dt! Hopefully we will hear back from someone who has
hands-on experience with this technology.
BTW, you can download the IEEE 802.1X specification here:
http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.1X-2001.pdf
It's a 1 MB document, 142 pages.
This link about the Microsoft 802.1X seems to indicate that the
authentication is performed without intervention of the user.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313664
But as I said - I have no direct experience with 802.1X.
HTH,
Jonathan
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Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 5:43 PM
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Subject: 3550 - 802.1x Port based Authentication
Hi,
I'd like to verify that I correctly understand what the 3550 config
guide is
saying regarding the above.
802.1x is used to authenticate the actual device (the client) as opposed
to
the user. As such the device can be any type of ethernet attached
device
including printers. Also, it seems like no user input is needed when
using
802.1x authentication. Please let me know if all these statements are
True or
False.
Also, the config guide doesn't mention what information is used to
authenticate the client. My guess is that it's probably the device's
mac
address, but really I have no idea. For all I know, it could be a
password
preconfigured on the device or maybe even some combo of different
parameters.
If someone knows how this works, please help me out.
Thanks very much, dt
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