IPFire 2.19 Linux Firewall Gets WPA Enterprise Authentication in Client Mode

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Michael Tremer from the IPFire Project announced the availability of a new stable update for the IPFire 2.19 series of the open-source Linux-based firewall distribution.

IPFire 2.19 Core Update 111 is now live and it appears to be a major update adding quite a large number of new features to the firewall, along with dozens of up-to-date components. The biggest change, however, seems to be the ability for IPFire to authenticate itself with an EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol)-enabled wireless network, supporting both TTLS and PEAP methods.

“IPFire supports PEAP and TTLS which are the two most common ones. They can be found in the configured on the “WiFi Client” page which only shows up when the RED interface is a wireless device,” says Michael Tremer in the release announcement. “The index page also shows various information about the status, bandwidth and quality of the connection … (read more)

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