running hostapd on wired machine

[Kunal Trivedi]

Hi,
    Is it possible to publish that patch ? So, that I can get
    some idea or start from your patch ?

    Thanks for the quick reply.
-Kunal

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Kunal Trivedi (412-268-1255)
Network Development
Carnegie Mellon University

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On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Oleg Izhvanov wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In the end of last year I made a patch to HostAP daemon, which
> abstracts HostAP daemon from HostAP kernel driver, enabling
> 802.1X authentication on one wireless card, that has support of
> Linux Wireless Extensions, but unaware of HostAP kernel driver
> private ioctls() and 802.11 frame management.
>
> This patch makes use of Linux Wireless Events to notify
> daemon about stations association/deassociation. To make HostAP
> daemon 802.1X authentication work on wired interface you have
> to find some way of providing these notifications to HostAP
> daemon (and code them into the daemon, too), maybe via some
> simple protocol between your AP and the HostAP daemon.
>
> Kunal Trivedi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've digged into the archive, but could not find any responses to Ron's
> > question in november.
> >
> > "Is it possible to run hostapd on wired machine ? or bind hostapd to
> > wired interface ?"
> >
> > We would like to authenticate wireless users but AP does not have 802.1x
> > functionality.
> > hostapd code seems to be using some information from kernel driver.
> >
> > Has anybody tried something like that.
> >
> > Comments/suggestions appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Kunal
> >
> > ----------------------------
> > Kunal Trivedi (412-268-1255)
> > Network Development
> > Carnegie Mellon University
> >
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