Authentication methods.

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Thu Jan 11 14:57:50 CET 2007


Evan Vittitow wrote:
> The issue is, I want a secure means of authenticating nodes to my WAP,
> but I don't want to degrade my traffic for things like Quake. The
> authentication can be encrypted, but not all the traffic.

  Using 802.1x authentication means that all traffic will be encrypted.
 This does not affect throughput at all.

> And I did look at pppd. pppd is launching in CHAP  mode, and it
> shouldn't be.

  So edit it's configuration to not use CHAP.

  Alan DeKok.
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