help needed in pre-authentication

[Harshil Anil Kumar Shah]

Ok. Thanks for your kind and early explanation. :)

But let me add to that,

I have,

Cisco 2960 G switch  			as Next AP.
D'Link DIR 600 Wireless Router	as Current AP.

So Is there any configuration pertained to pre-authentication to be done on Next AP. If it is, then how to do that?
Note that, I am not using "hostapd" as an AP. I am using APs mentioned above.	

-Thanks,
Harshil.


-----Original Message-----
From: Jouni Malinen [mailto:j at w1.fi] 
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 4:13 PM
To: Harshil Anil Kumar Shah
Subject: Re: help needed in pre-authentication

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 02:54:52PM +0530, Harshil Anil Kumar Shah wrote:
> I believe I do not have to use hostapd for that. Actually, how RSN pre-authentication differs from 802.1x pre-authentication?.

I do not know what you are referring to with "802.1x
pre-authentication".

> Would there be any configuration parameters on current AP for AAA server or we just need to enable pre-authentication on it and it will forward EAP-packet to next AP, which in turn relays the same to AAA server?

Enabling pre-authentication should be enough; the pre-authentication
packets from the supplicant are use their own ethertype and are sent to
the BSSID of the target AP, so as long as bridging is set up correctly
between the APs, that should work transparently at the current AP.

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