Looking for inexpensive 802.1x PEAP compatible WiFi to ethernet adapter

[alfredska]

I'm trying to find an inexpensive way to connect an ethernet only device to an 802.1x PEAP authenticated (WPA2 Enterprise) WiFi network. 100Mbps for the ethernet port and 150Mbps for Wireless-N would be fine.

I bought a TP-LINK TL-WR702N to later find out it only supports WPA/WPA2 Personal networks when in client mode. Right now I'm considering something like a used Belkin N300 (F7D7301) router with DD-WRT, but again I'm not sure if it supports 802.1x PEAP when in client mode.

Anyone out there have experience with this scenario?

 

[azazel1024]

Supposedly their WR703 adapter does support 802.1x. I couldn't find anything on 802.1x support on the 702N.

I found this when looking at 802.1x, straight from wikipedia.

MAB (MAC Authentication Bypass)

Not all devices support 802.1X authentication: examples are network printers, ethernet-based electronics like environmental sensors, cameras, wireless phones etc. For those devices to be used in a protected network environment, alternative mechanisms must be provided to authenticate them.
One option would be to disable 802.1X on that port: but that leaves that port unprotected and open for abuse. Another, slightly more reliable option, is to use the MAB option. When MAB is configured on a port that port will first try to check if the connected device is 802.1X compliant and if no reaction is received from the connected device it will try to authenticate towards the AAA server using the connected device's MAC address as username and password. The network-administrator then must make provisions on the RADIUS server to authenticate those MAC-Addresses, either by adding them as regular users, or implementing additional logic to resolve them in a network inventory database.
Many managed ethernet switches [24][25] offer options for this.

 

[alfredska]

Thanks for the response azazel1024, but I think even that adapter only supports WPA2 Enterprise as an incoming authentication method, not for authenticating to outside wireless networks (as in the case of client mode and repeater mode). I contacted TP-LINK about their WR710N (which is quite similar to the WR703N according to OpenWRT wiki), and they told me that router also does not support WPA2 Enterprise in client/repeater modes.

So, I'm still looking for options.