guide/EAP Clients

radeapclient

FreeRADIUS servers ships with an "radeapclient" that can do EAP-MD5 (passwords), as well as EAP-SIM.

Windows XP supplicant

XP - FreeRADIUS EAP/TLS notes may be found at:

http://www.denobula.com/EAPTLS.pdf

SecureW2

SecureW2 was a powerful open source 802.1x Client for Windows. It is now available as a commercial product only.

Features

Most robust and EAP-TTLS Client available today
Uses the standard MS 802.1X Client for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Pocket PC 2003.
Works with both wired- and wireless 802.1X networks
Supports convenient user profiles
User based authentication, allowing administrators to deploy standard accounting techniques
No user certificates, no client certificate issuing problems
Dynamic WEP keys, instead of static WEP keys
WEP key rotation, every 10 minutes a new WEP key is generated without the user even noticing
Works on all common user-databases
Works with 802.11 protocols such as 802.11B, 802.11A and 802.11

NetworkManager

NetworkManager is a software utility aimed at simplifying the use of computer networks on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

The project was initiated in 2004 by Red Hat, with the goal of enabling Linux users to more easily deal with modern networking needs, particularly Wireless LAN. NetworkManager takes an opportunistic approach to network selection, attempting to use the best available connection as outages occur, or the user roams between wireless networks. Ethernet connections are preferred over "known" wireless networks, which are preferred over wireless networks with SSIDs the user has never connected to. The user is prompted for WEP or WPA keys as needed.

wpa_supplicant

http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant is an Open Source WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD, and Windows with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). It is suitable for both desktop/laptop computers and embedded systems. Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication/association of the wlan driver.

Xsupplicant

The Open1X project is dedicated to bringing a free, open source 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/IEEE802.11i implementation to as many target platforms as possible.

XSupplicant - freeradius (EAP/TLS) notes may be found at:

http://www.eax.com/802/

or http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/wireless/eaptls/

rad_eap_test

rad_eap_test is a tool for testing EAP from the shell. Uses eapol_test from wpa_supplicant, and also works as a nagios plugin.