Authenticate and encrypt all network traffic between computers

[Brazen]

I'm not sure how well I can explain it. The goal is so that someone can't just plug any computer into our network and get an address from DHCP or talk to our servers.

I like how PEAP works, but that requires support and configuration on the hubs. I would prefer for the encryption and authentication to occur between the two communicating computers.

 

[spidey07]

802.1x requires authentication. It's basically eap but can be at layer2 or 3. The switch speaks 802.1x/eap to the client and then authenticates to a radius server very similar to wireless networks.

As far as encrytption that would be tough large scale but you could setup IPsec tunnels between the access and core layers of the network.

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: spidey07
802.1x requires authentication. It's basically eap but can be at layer2 or 3. The switch speaks 802.1x/eap to the client and then authenticates to a radius server very similar to wireless networks.

As far as encrytption that would be tough large scale but you could setup IPsec tunnels between the access and core layers of the network.

As I said, I already know how the various forms of EAP work and particularly like PEAP, but I think I would rather have something that does what EAP does, but work between computer and computer rather than computer and hub.