John W. Linville <linville@...> writes: > I believe wpa_supplicant can do the 802.1x authentication to gain > access to a port on a supporting switch. However, I am not aware > of any standard for "encrypted ethernet" that would build upon that. John, thanks for taking the time to answer. An untested idea I had was bridging the mac80211 hwsim device to an ethernet device. Could this work and would it do what I want? I suspect not, but maybe... Alternatively, is it somehow possible to connect the lower layer input/output of hwsim to another network interface? > You might consider implementing your own code on top of the TUN/TAP > driver for point-to-point encrypted links? How would this differ from OpenVPN? > John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
