WInXP +SP1 Hostap and 802.1x authentications

[Jouni Malinen]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:59:23PM +0200, Paolo Rossi wrote:

> Unsupported authentication algorithm (1)
> Unsupported authentication algorithm (0)


> ##### hostapd configuration file ##############################################
> # IEEE 802.11 specifies two authentication algorithms. hostapd can be
> # configured to allow both of these or only one. Open system authentication
> # should be used with IEEE 802.1X.
> # Bit fields of allowed authentication algorithms:
> # bit 0 = Open System Authentication
> # bit 1 = Shared Key Authentication (requires WEP)
> auth_algs=0

You seem to have disabled all authentication algorithms. In practice,
this means that no one is able to use your AP.. I should probably just
change hostapd to reject that kind of configuration. Anyway, auth_algs
is a bit field and it should be set to 1 (i.e., bit0 set) to allow Open
System Authentication when using IEEE 802.1X. Other possible values are
2 (only Shared Key Auth) and 3 (both Open System and Shared Key
accepted), but these should not be used with IEEE 802.1X.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA