http://blog.matthewgast.com/2007/07/02/better-8021x-support-for-voip-phones-and-network-paperclips/ A former physicist tries to make sense of technology Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:12:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2007/07/02/better-8021x-support-for-voip-phones-and-network-paperclips/#comment-7748 Sean Convery » Blog Archive » Multi-touching my EAP Type Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:59:23 +0000 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2007/07/02/better-8021x-support-for-voip-phones-and-network-paperclips/#comment-7748 [...] 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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