# 802.1X Port-Based Authentication HOWTO

### Lars Strand

`<lars strand (at) gnist org>`

2004-08-18

Revision History
Revision 1.0 | 2004-10-18 | Revised by: LKS
Initial Release, reviewed by TLDP.
Revision 0.2b | 2004-10-13 | Revised by: LKS
Various updates. Thanks to Rick Moen <rick (at) linuxmafia com> for language review.
Revision 0.0 | 2004-07-23 | Revised by: LKS
Initial draft.

This document describes the software and procedures to set up and use IEEE 802.1X Port-Based Network Access Control using Xsupplicant as Supplicant with FreeRADIUS as a back-end Authentication Server.

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