Tuesday, March 23, 2004

PEAP support on Linux with xsupplicant. Of all the different 802.1X authentication methods that have been proposed, Protected EAP (PEAP) is perhaps the most popular. It allows the authentication of wireless clients with a user password, and support by industry heavyweights has made it available far and wide on commercial operating systems. I recently helped a few organizations get PEAP running on Linux with xsupplicant, an open-source 802.1X client implementation. xsupplicant itself is very easy to build, install, and configure, but it requires some support from the card driver. This article discusses the client piece only; I plan to follow up with articles describing how to get various cards working. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Weblogs] 9:38:17 AM

Dispelling the myths of Gentoo Linux. This long-term Red Hat Linux user has given an hon... [OSNews] 9:35:34 AM