SECURITY How To Enable 802.1X (Vlan Authentication)

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[edit] Introduction

The objective of this How To, is to help configure an Gentoo Desktop/Notebook in a IEEE 802.1X (Port Based Network Access Control) environment.

This document assumes that it is a recent installation based in Universal Live CD.

[edit] Requirements

  • XSupplicant - The Open 802.1X Implementation - XSupplicant Page
  • Network Credentials (Username / Password / LDAP Information / etc.)
  • Certificates if needed

[edit] Installing xsupplicant

Remember to replace x86 with your architecture 

echo 'net-misc/xsupplicant ~x86' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge -vD xsupplicant
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