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Cool guys. &nbsp;I'll check these out and award points to the one that works
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Cool guys.  I'll check these out and award points to the one that works

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I'm trying to setup a lab for 802.1x wired authentication without buying any new switching hardware if possible. &nbsp; Is there any open source switch software that I could Install as a VM in Hyperv to act as the Authenticator for &nbsp;your typical RAIDIUS backend leveraging EAP-TLS
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I'm trying to setup a lab for 802.1x wired authentication without buying any new switching hardware if possible.   Is there any open source switch software that I could Install as a VM in Hyperv to act as the Authenticator for  your typical RAIDIUS backend leveraging EAP-TLS

Virtual Switch for 802.1x lab

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.

Switches / Hubs

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.