If controller acts as the 802.1x acts as the authenticator, the switch will be the supplicant that gets authenticated. In that case , switch may need to implement the 802.1x supplicant.
Thanks -ns murthy From: discuss-boun...@openvswitch.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Ben Pfaff Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 11:32 PM To: Ed Wallig Cc: discuss@openvswitch.org Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] FW: 802.1x capabilities I don't know a reason to implement this in Open vSwitch rather than in an OpenFlow controller. Do you? On Sep 5, 2013 12:00 PM, "Ed Wallig" <ewal...@aerocontractors.com<mailto:ewal...@aerocontractors.com>> wrote: Hi, First post and was wondering if there is a timeline / roadmap for the inclusion of an 802.1x authenticator role in openvswitch. Thanks - Ed _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org<mailto:discuss@openvswitch.org> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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