It would be very useful if Peplink added .1x support to the physical LAN interfaces that’s already on the wireless side.
We now get requests in for devices which can support this for integration with services like Cisco ISE for endpoint authentication/protection. In order to control access and add port security which comes up quite often now in RFI/RFQ documents.
+1. Every grown up company I’ve talked to lately has asked about .1x on physical LAN ports and been disappointed its not currently supported by Peplink.
Is there any update on getting 802.1x on Max device wired ports? This is coming up all the time for us now, and we’re having to discount using Peplink devices because of it unfortunately, and frustratingly in scenarios where Peplink kit would be perfect for the requirements aside from this one thing.
We still look into it as it is not easy. This may involve changing of coding, driver, or additional chipset might be needed. We will keep you all updated.
I can imagine that this is very difficult to implement, but this is is must-have-feature on a switch today. Please don’t forget that many NAC-Solutions will do that with SNMP, not everybody is using Radius for that.
We have a lot of questions on the MAX and Balance device to do NAC. Some with Radius and many with SNMP (Switch will send a SNMP-Trap witch the CLient-MAC-Address to the NAC-Server, the server will check the MAC and sends a SNMP write command to the Switch)