Hi,<br>Thanks for the quick reply.<br><br>As from hostapd documentation, it is said that it can be used as a standalone Wireless AP. <br>But you have mentioned below:<br>
"build your own switch using hostapd". <br>Can it also be used as a standalone EAP- SIM Server/authenticator (sort of switch) which is working on "eth0" port? Right?<br>If it is so, on the wireless LAN, wpa_supplicant scans the AP by SSID. On the wired lan, how can the wpa_supplicant can point to some particular switch (actually hosted by hostapd). Does wpa_supplicant also receives any input regarding ip address of authenticator as we have for eapol_test which takes the IP address of AAA Server?<br>
<br>Any pointer to this?<br><br>BR,<br>AAMER<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Jouni Malinen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:j@w1.fi" target="_blank">j@w1.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 03:12:47PM +0200, Chaudry Chaudry wrote:<br>
> I want to ask if it possible to test wpa_supplicant over LAN by giving the<br>
> interface "-i" as eth0 instead of wlan0 as input parameter. I know about<br>
> "eapol_test", but I want to use EAP-SIM peer over LAN only and "eapol_test"<br>
> is combination of EAP-Peer and Radius Client. Any pointer to this will be<br>
> appreciated.<br>
<br>
</div></div>You can use wpa_supplicant for wired IEEE 802.1X authentication, so if<br>
you have a suitable authenticator (likely some kind of managed switch or<br>
build your own using hostapd), you can use that to run EAPOL/EAP<br>
authentication over wired ethernet. Alternatively, preauth_test could be<br>
used to do this using the RSN pre-authentication ethertype instead of<br>
EAPOL, but the end result is more or less the same.<br>
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Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA<br>
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