Phil Mayers wrote: >>> Nortel (untested) >>> >>> >> Are Notel still in buisiness ? I heard they invested heavily in mobile >> interweb and went bust. >> > > No, they're still in business. The products we looked at recently are > fairly new. > Thats good to know, they used to be pretty big players in the UK. I know there big UK research centre/hq near Harlow closed down a few years back. Quite sad really. >>> You really want to be looking for a few key differentiators such as: >>> >>> * can the device support 802.1x & mac-based fallback at the same time? >>> >>> >> Yes !!! >> The issue that I have with most of the current switches, is that they >> can't fallback to mac based auth... >> > > Really? I didn't do the testing personally, but I'm fairly sure most of > the ones we tested did support it. > > Certainly 3Com, Cisco and Extreme do. > Unfortunately we didn't really have a choice, as all the 300 odd deployed edge switches were HP, and there was no way we would get funding to replace them all. Also previous experience with both 3Com and Cisco , saw them both removed permanently from our proffered suppliers list.
>>> * if so, can it assign separate untagged vlans to each client? >>> * can the device assign IP ACLs from Radius replies? >>> * can the device assign 1 untagged and >1 tagged vlans (think wlan aps) >>> >>> >> I don't think many will allow you to assign multiple tagged VLANS, most >> centre around assigning one untagged VLAN... though that would be a very >> neat feature. >> > > Extreme can. > Well extreme looks like a good bet then. Though it looks like all their wireless stuff is centrally managed, which is probably why we didn't investigate them. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
