6 Open Source Projects for 802.1X Network Authentication

“The 802.1X authentication protocol plays a major role in Wi-Fi
security of business networks. It enables the Enterprise flavor of
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) encryption for wireless
networks, and can also provide authentication on the wired side.
Here are six open source projects that deal with 802.1X
authentication:

“FreeRADIUS

“FreeRADIUS is probably the most important contribution to
802.1X from the open source community. It’s a popular Remote
Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) server that can
provide the Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) for
802.1X and numerous other protocols. FreeRADIUS can save you from
buying a commercial server like Radiator or Elektron, saving
hundreds or thousands of dollars.

“FreeRADIUS can install and run on Linux, Mac OS X, and other
Unix-like operating systems. As you see in the next section, you
can even run it on Windows. FreeRADIUS works with all the major
802.1X clients or supplicants and operating systems.”

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