network-manager 0.7 page

[Joel Goguen]

On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 20:57 +0100, Dougie Richardson wrote:
> I think you're confusing 802.1 with 802.11a/b/g/n. 802 is an entire family
> of standards for LAN/WAN, 802.1 is Bridging but 802.1x would cover
> everything from 802.10 to 802.19 of which only really 802.11, 802.15 and
> 802.16 are concerned with any kind of "wireless".
Actually, 802.1X is an IEEE standard for port-based network access
control.  We use it at my workplace to authenticate users for access to
the wireless network.  A quick look at it is on Wikipedia[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.1x

-- 
Joel Goguen
Bug-free code is a myth.
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