wpa_supplicant support for ifup

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 18:29 +0000, Keith Sharp wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 12:26 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Harald Hoyer (harald at redhat.com) said: 
> > > What do you think about the attached patch to ifup-wireless? Works for me :)
> > 
> > This should really be done in NM.
> 
> I may have the wrong end of the stick, but what about the increasingly
> common situation where wired access to Ethernet switches is beings
> controlled by 802.1x authentication?  I understand that NM will handle
> the laptop/workstation with GUI case, but what about servers?  And how
> does NM handle static IP addresses?

The next version is targetting better static IP support and almost
definitely will have wired 802.1x support as well.  (along with
networking-before-login and LEAP)

Dan