Reviving an old thread.

>
> The packetfence documentation is great and sofar we have been able to
> follow it quite closely, but when it comes to setting up and integrating
>   802.1X into the mix, it seems to be very short.
>
> Why is this? Is this, because 802.1X, isn't really being deployed in
> combination with packetfence currently or even maybe 802.1x is
> superfluous once packetfence is installed?
>
> If somebody could explain a setup where they have linux servers, MS AD
> controller and XP workstations and actually have packetfence AND 802.1x
> port security both enabled.  I am particularly curious as to what RADIUS
> server people would use for this? Is this safer and easier to do with MS
> software or using FreeRadius? Is a radius server even required because
> of 802.1X?
>

Before PacketFence 2.0 it was possible to mix dot1x and port-security 
but a lot of manual configuration and a deep understanding of how 
packetfence works was required.

With the 2.0 release you should be able to accomplish the scenario you 
mentioned by following our updated Admin guide.

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