Sorry, I may actually be comparing apples to oranges; my reference is an 802.1x-capable hardware switch, for example an HP ProCurve 2600 2800 series. Admittedly I do not know a lot about the openvswitch project so I may not have a clear view of how all the pieces go together. When I was researching I did see on the web site that 802.1x was something that was being considered down the road.
Thanks - Ed From: NS Srinivasa Murthy-B37840 [mailto:b37...@freescale.com] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 3:22 PM To: Ben Pfaff; Ed Wallig Cc: discuss@openvswitch.org Subject: RE: [ovs-discuss] FW: 802.1x capabilities 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> [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<mailto: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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner<http://www.mailscanner.info/>, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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