Roaming with WPA-Enterprise/Radius

David Mitton david at mitton.com
Wed Jan 4 16:24:37 CET 2006


802.11f is different than most IEEE 802 standards, in that it's a "Recommended Practice" not a standard. 
I'm not aware of any implementations, but I'd like to hear of them.

Anyways, the IEEE 802 SA has withdrawn 802.11F as an RP as of 12/08/2005.

Dave.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Artur Hecker" <hecker at wave-storm.com>
To: z.ori at morehead-st.edu, "FreeRadius users mailing list" <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
Subject: Re: Roaming with WPA-Enterprise/Radius
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:16:08 +0100

> 
> hmmm, seriously though:
> 
> - does anyone know of any APs on the market which support 802.11f?
> - has anyone ever seen a reasonable non-proprietary definition of the  
> container content for the context transfer?
> - has anyone ever thought of implementing the support for 802.11f  into 
> freeradius? (i know alan hates its double-nested attributes :-) )
> - what about the preauthentication definitions in 802.11i?
> 
> 
> ciao
> artur
> 
> 
> On 4 Jan 2006, at 14:07, Zoltan Ori wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 07:07, DI PAOLA ., VIERI wrote:
> >>
> >> Is there a way of "caching" or "pre-authenticating" or "propagating
> >> authentication between APs"?
> >>
> >> Has anyone found a solution to this roaming problem in case one uses
> >> WPA-Enterprise/Radius?
> >>
> >
> > IAPP - IEEE 802.11F
> >
> >
> > Zoltan Ori
> >
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