[Noisebridge-discuss] WPA ant other network Q's

[Ryan Castellucci]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Ryan Castellucci's message of Fri May 28 17:07:48 -0700 201
>> Centralized WPA authentication doesn't require anything proprietary,
>> WPA/WPA2-Enterprise works with FreeRADIUS just fine.
>
> Even on dumb APs that are just acting as bridges? The AP (or whatever
> can get at the raw 802.11 frames) needs to support doing so.
> That's what I was getting at.
>
> It's pretty widely supported, but it's nice that even "junker" APs work
> for noisebridge's purposes.

I have never seen an AP that with 802.11g support that didn't support
WPA/WPA2-Enterprise.  "Dumb" aps... the cheap low end ones are not
dumb.  They have to take care of handling management frame, track
associations, etc.  Real "Dumb" APs - ethernet attached radios - are
fairly expensive.  Such systems centralize management functions to a
'wireless switch'.  They do let you do things like have a single
virtual AP covering a large area.

-- 
Ryan Castellucci http://ryanc.org/