http://www.seanconvery.com/weblog/2006/09/05/more-8021x-support-in-non-pc-devices/ Ruminations on Information Technology Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:43:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.seanconvery.com/weblog/2006/09/05/more-8021x-support-in-non-pc-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Sean Convery » Blog Archive » Multi-touching my EAP Type Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:59:25 +0000 http://www.seanconvery.com/weblog/2006/09/05/more-8021x-support-in-non-pc-devices/#comment-30 [...] My fellow OpenSEA colleagues Messers Oltsik and Gast have both recently pointed to the need for more 802.1X support in non-PC devices. Last year I made a post indicating that support seemed to be improving and I certainly agree that OpenSEA can help accelerate this. The iPhone is definitely a step in the other direction though. As Matthew points out, Mac OS X already has a native supplicant and the iPhone supposedly runs Mac OS X. I’m guessing this is more a matter of QA resources butting up against launch plans than anything else; my iPhone’s browser still crashes from time to time which certainly seems like a higher priority. [...] [...] My fellow OpenSEA colleagues Messers Oltsik and Gast have both recently pointed to the need for more 802.1X support in non-PC devices. Last year I made a post indicating that support seemed to be improving and I certainly agree that OpenSEA can help accelerate this. The iPhone is definitely a step in the other direction though. As Matthew points out, Mac OS X already has a native supplicant and the iPhone supposedly runs Mac OS X. I’m guessing this is more a matter of QA resources butting up against launch plans than anything else; my iPhone’s browser still crashes from time to time which certainly seems like a higher priority. [...]

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