<div>Would you please recommend some external translation agent/proxy which can translate between these two protocols?</div>
<div>Thank you.</div>
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<div>xodpox<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/3/11, Jouni Malinen <<a href="mailto:j@w1.fi">j@w1.fi</a>>:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:40:29PM +0800, xodpox wrote:<br><br>> Can anyone kindly tell me if hostapd can be used as an 802.1X authenticator<br>
> while the authentication server is OpenDiameter?<br>> Or where I can find some more information about how to implement this?<br><br>The current version of hostapd does not include a Diameter client, so<br>native authentication using the Diameter protocol is not going to work.<br>
I would assume it would be possible to authenticate with OpenDiameter by<br>using an external translation agent/proxy that would take care of<br>translation between RADIUS and Diameter, though.<br><br>As far as native Diameter support is concerned, one would need to<br>
implement a Diameter authentication client into hostapd similarly to the<br>way the RADIUS authentication client is implemented. So far, there has<br>not been many request for this (I think this may be the first question<br>
on this topic that I've seen) and as such, adding support for this has<br>not been very high on my priority list.<br><br>--<br>Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA<br>_______________________________________________<br>
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