Ok I got it. By the way what is AV pair? And how do you get NAS related attributes to control bandwidth from vendors? Like if im using D-Link how could I get attributes from them? Thanks! _____ From: freeradius-users-bounces@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces@lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Reilly Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:53 AM To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: RE: 802.1x Alex, Features such as 'bandwidth and port blocking" (if any) are allocated/configured on the _NAS_ (in this case a NAS port) via AV pair/s provided by RADIUS... the '802.1x Supplicant" (Client/Endpoint) in simple terms... provides a secure/standard conduit which facilitates the communication of credentials (from the Supplicant to the Authenticator). The '802.1x Authenticator" (or NAS) _MAY_ provision/enforce Authorization for the specific endpoint in the context of a user or group... The management & granularity of this functionality verifies greatly by switch vendor as a result providing this functionality across a multi-vendor environment... in a large scale deployment... is often too complex to seriously consider.<? jmr -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: 802.1x From: "Alex M" <alexm@lrcommunications.net> Date: Wed, November 02, 2005 9:10 am To: "'FreeRadius users mailing list'" <freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org> Now im totally lost... Can u give me an example what 802.1x does? -----Original Message----- From: freeradius-users-bounces@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces@lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of Alan DeKok Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:04 AM To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Re: 802.1x "Alex M" <alexm@lrcommunications.net> wrote:
So then such features as bandwidth and port blocking could be controlled via 802.1x?
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