EAPOL simulation

[tabibel sami]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 08:52:19PM +0100, tabibel sami wrote:
> >     In purpose to experiment eap-sim authentication protocol, i start by
> > create the following virtual infrastructure:
> >
> >      supplicant <---------> NAS (AP)< --------------> freeradius server
> >       10.0.0.1/24              10.0.0.2/24
> 195.12.16.17/24
> >                       |            |             |                    |
> >                       |            |             |                    |
> >                       |            |             |                    |
> >                 vmnet8      eth0       bridge              eth0
>
> > supplicant : is my real machine,
> > NAS : is a vmplayer virtual machine,
> > freeradius server : is an lxc container
>
> Is there any specific requirement for using a virtual machine for the
> NAS?
>
no, i have used it only to avoid using lxc one hote.

>
> > is there a way to test hostapd, and to simulate an 802.1x authentication
> > with above virtual network ?
> > does wpa_supplicant do this authentication in case of ethernet (virtual);
> > or wpa_supplicant do only wireless authentication ?
>
> wpa_supplicant can use IEEE 802.1X either with wireless or wired.
> However, I've never tested this type of setup with a virtual guest and
> host being used for the "wired" interface. It could be possible to get
> that working, but it would likely be quite a bit simpler to use
> mac80211_hwsim with wpa_supplicant and hostapd using the virtual WLAN.
>
 thank you for the information, I will follow this track.

>
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> Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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