On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 09:53, Jouni Malinen wrote:

What benefits do you see in having EAPOL/EAP implemented in network
stack? Did you see it being adding as part of 802.11 stack or network
stack in general? IEEE 802.1X/EAPOL is used also on wired interfaces..

There is _absolutely_ no need to put this stuff in the kernel. It would
be extremely rude to do so.
Put it in user space  - then you can interface it with Radius, LDAP etc.

cheers,
jamal