Dynamic IP address assignment

tom at ceisystems.com tom
Thu Sep 18 21:49:42 PDT 2003


Hello all,
	Does anybody have the official spec. of the interaction between
802.1x and 802.11?  This would most definitely clear up the issue.  Just
my $.02.

Thomas Cameron


> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:51:04AM +0200, Gehlert 
> Frank-QSWI3185 wrote:
> 
[snip]
> I don't think hostapd should need to know anything about DHCP 
> and would thus keep this separate. Passing the contents of 
> Framed-IP-Address attribute (with the STA's MAC address) to 
> an external program should be fine, though. One could then 
> have a DHCP server that gets new MAC addr <-> IP address 
> entries and uses these to assing addresses once the STA sends 
> DHCP request after the IEEE 802.1X authorization.
> 
> -- 
> Jouni Malinen                                            PGP 
> id EFC895FA




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