Is 802.1X supported

[Passante]

Campus IT are saying that the iPhone can't access our WiFi systems due to the lack of support for 802.1X.

Anyone know for sure.

 

[chriswheat]

Currently there is no support for 802.1x.

 

[Passante]

Chriswheat

Thanks for the quick answer. Guess I'll be using edge on campus.

 

[mjs975s]

Campus IT are saying that the iPhone can't access our WiFi systems due to the lack of support for 802.1X.

Anyone know for sure.

A better answer is "not currently" but I spoke with a Sr. iPhone Engineer who assured me this will be addressed and hopefully in the first update. He admited it was a huge oversight on Apple's part but they did not realize how wide spread 802.1X authetication was. In fact, it took an hour to escalate me through a series of levels to a person that even knew what it was and he readily admitted the iPhone "should have probably supported it out of the box" since OS X does as well as every Windows machine and wi-fi enabled smartphone/pda.

 

[Passante]

Glad to hear its only an update (or two) away.

 

[upenox]

All I want is to be able to get a cert on the thing to work with my EAP-TLS @ home .

 

[PoitNarf]

Found this petition requesting Apple add 802.1x capability to the iPhone. I urge all of you to sign it:

http://www.petitiononline.com/iphonewf/

 

[Passante]

Found this petition requesting Apple add 802.1x capability to the iPhone. I urge all of you to sign it:

http://www.petitiononline.com/iphonewf/

PoitNarf

Thanks for the link.