(RADIATOR) Airnoet LEAP update

[Mike McCauley]

Hello all,

Here is an update on the state of play with Radiator support for Cisco 
Aironet and LEAP.

Cisco Aironet wireless routers can be configured to use LEAP to 
authenticate wireless clients. LEAP is a secret, nonstandard Cisco 
proprietary extension
to the Radius protocol. Cisco have refused to publically release or
describe the LEAP protocol specification, and it is not supported by any other
wireless vendor.

Radiator can proxy LEAP requests, but until Cisco publically release 
the LEAP protocol specification, 
Radiator will not support LEAP authentication.

There are other wireless router vendors that support authentication with
the standard Radius protocol.

Customers considering using Aironet with Radius authentication 
should ask themselves and their Cisco representative how they can be
sure LEAP authentication is secure if Cisco won't publically
release the specification.


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Mike McCauley                               mikem at open.com.au
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