Win XP and 802.11x in wired network

[Marek]

Does anybody know or can describe the defult behavior of a Windows XP
computer with 802.11x authentication enabled on a wired network?
Something like a time line while computer starts.
When computer starts to negotiate authentication after what and how long
typicaly negotiation process takes in the wired enviroment with 802.11x
enabled on the etherrnet switch ports.

Thank you very much

Marek

 

[John Wunderlich]

Does anybody know or can describe the defult behavior of a Windows
XP computer with 802.11x authentication enabled on a wired
network? Something like a time line while computer starts.
When computer starts to negotiate authentication after what and
how long typicaly negotiation process takes in the wired
enviroment with 802.11x enabled on the etherrnet switch ports.

I think you are confused. 802.11x is strictly wireless.
If this is a wired network, then you probably meant to refer to 802.1x
(used in both wired and wireless networks).
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.1x>

"How 802.1x authentication works"
<http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,79995,00.html>

802.1x is based on RFC 2284 which contains the gory details:
<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2284.txt>

HTH,
John

 

[Jack \(MVP-Networking\).]

Hi
802.11x authentication is Not for wire, and Not for a regular Wireless
either.
It to be used on a Wireless corporate LogOn Server(like logging to Windows
2003 with IAS).
Jack (MVP-Networking).

 

[Marek]

I think you both aren't right.
Better switches has this option to set up wired NICs has this option too.
There exist the MS document describing how to implement 802.11x in wired
enviroment with the IAS server.

I try to set it up in our Wxp/Linksys/MS_IAS enviroment and it works but it
takes around 30 seconds to authenticate the wired client and this long time
causes problems with application of a Computer GPO during computer start up.

So under my initial question is covered another thing I'm trying to resolve.
Is this 30s interval natural behavior or malfunction<

 

[Jack \(MVP-Networking\).]

Hi
Yap, you are right the first line of my post is incorrect it is both for
wire and wireless.
Jack (MVP-Networking).