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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I started to play around with the latest cvs version and the hostapd program
(enabled the option before compilation).</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I have a few questions:</span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></font>Is there a way for hostapd to fork execution? How do
I put it in my init scripts if it doesn’t? </p>
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</span></font></span></font>Is there a way to enable a rotating key with the –m
option. I don’t care about authenticating based on the 802.1X against a
radius server, I just want to leverage the rotating key functionality if the client
supports it to at least prevent WEP password cracking.</p>
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</span></font></span></font>Is there a way to leverage the radius client inside
hostapd to authenticate the MAC address for association? Right now the two
options are either to allow open access or to authenticate against a list of MAC
addresses that gets populated with “iwpriv wlan0 wds_add MAC-goes-here”.
The idea is to be able to use a central server for global authentication of MAC
addresses throughout a network of Access Points without having to maintain the
same list in each of them. I know that 802.1X does this but the idea is to not
have to require it on the client side. Perhaps it can use radius with the MAC
as Username and Password and hit the radius server using PAP.</p>
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</span></font></span></font>How does the radius client inside hostapd communicate
with the server? Is it PAP, CHAP, MsChapV2 or am I way off in understanding how
this works?</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Thanks in advance,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Sergio</span></font></p>
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