I thought there might be a wireless driver piece that needed to be addressed. I gave the PEAP trac item to Michail for comment.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Kim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Marten Vijn <<a href="mailto:info@martenvijn.nl">info@martenvijn.nl</a>> wrote:<br>
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On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 09:27 -0400, Kim Quirk wrote:<br>
> Martin, Wad,<br>
> We have promised to provide NYC with a schedule for the item you<br>
> mention, Martin, trac #6855, as well as support for PEAP. trac #6900.<br>
> I have told them that PEAP was a 2009 feature (mainly because I wanted<br>
> to discourage them), but they have asked if we can pull it in.<br>
<br>
</div>Considering:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html" target="_blank">http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html</a><br>
and<br>
<a href="http://www.freebsdmall.com/%7Eloader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html" target="_blank">http://www.freebsdmall.com/%<br>
7Eloader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html</a><br>
<br>
This would be possible and I am willing to put time in this.<br>
<br>
If needed, I could put some effort to put it in firmware (tinybsd) for<br>
any i386 mobo/embedded system.<br>
<br>
The XS could to radius (and optinally config AP's with ssh/or/puppet)<br>
<br>
Marten<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
><br>
> So the next step on these two items is to figure out the development<br>
> and test effort associated with these two features. It would be great<br>
> if people could add their thoughts into those trac bugs as to what<br>
> work is needed.<br>
><br>
> After we have that, we can weigh that against other priorities and<br>
> come up with which release to put these in.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Kim<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Martin Langhoff<br>
> <<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:26 AM, John Watlington<br>
> <<a href="mailto:wad@laptop.org">wad@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> > If a school is using a mesh, we have a carefully designed<br>
> system<br>
> > to ensure that a laptop doesn't go into simple mesh mode,<br>
> and instead<br>
> > connects automatically with the school.<br>
> ><br>
> > If a school is using traditional WiFi, there is no such<br>
> guarantee.<br>
> > This is possibly bad, as kids that aren't associated can<br>
> interfere with<br>
> > those that are.<br>
><br>
><br>
> When at NYC, you mentioned that the NM searches and prefers<br>
> the<br>
> school-mesh-<n> essids of mesh-type signals. And that perhaps<br>
> we could<br>
> make it lock into infrastructure-mode essids of that name with<br>
> the<br>
> same kind of preference. Would this simple fix help sort the<br>
> problem<br>
> out?<br>
><br>
> Also, do we have wikipage of tested APs?<br>
><br>
> cheers,<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> m<br>
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