802.1x open source authenticator

[turner]

Hi there,


Please someone help me. I'm trying to replace the Cisco switch with a laptop with freeBSD FreeBSD OS. Friends told me hostapd can be used but I'm so new to freeBSD FreeBSD and I don't know how to configure hostapd. Can anyone help with a very step-by-step configuration guide?

 

[da1]

Read Google.

 

[ondra_knezour]

Found this one on first page of Google, but is little dated. For overview, check FreeBSD Handbook chapter on wireless and hostapd() and hostapd.conf() man pages.

 

[turner]

Thank you so much, ondra knezour.

I've just set the configuration like this:

interface=eth0

driver=wired

logger_syslog=-1               
logger_syslog_level=2          
logger_stdout=-1               
logger_stdout_level=2

dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump

ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd

ctrl_interface_group=0

ieee8021x=1

eapol_key_index_workaround=0

eap_server=1

own_ip_addr=192.168.0.40

auth_server_addr=192.168.0.23         
auth_server_port=1812                  
auth_server_shared_secret=secret

acct_server_addr=192.168.0.23         
acct_server_port=1813                 
acct_server_shared_secret=secret

First tell me if I set the configuration in the right way? Please help me with the following problem: and I have error like this:

invalid/unknown driver 'wired'

I try driver=hostap, driver=none and driver=n180211 but the error still remains

invalid/unknown driver

 

[ondra_knezour]

Looks like there is not driver option in current hostapd.conf() file.

 

[turner]

Thanks again.

I test this configuration on Linux with no problems. It seems that this configuration works with Linux but not FreeBSD. Do you know what is the configuration for FreeBSD?

 

[SirDice]

Read the hostapd.conf(5) man page. The tool works differently on Linux compared to FreeBSD.

 

[turner]

Thanks SirDice. Can you please tell me the difference. What is the extra configuration in FreeBSD compared to Linux?