Does E71 support EAP Enterprise?

Question

I'm trying to connect my E71 to work's network. It uses a WPA/WPA2 with EAP-Enterprise authentication method.
My colleague uses an iPhone and setup was easy enough to choose 'EAP-Enterprise' and enter user + password. The certificate get sent to his phone and its all done.
How is this done with the E71?

Answer 1

20-Dec-2008 06:15 AM
sanjaymehta wrote:
3. Even if you do get the certificate and have the right EAP support, you might not be able to log on to the network. I've tried to log in using EAP-GTC and the phone just doesn't give me
enough time to enter the password.
I think that the reason why you are not getting enough time to enter your EAP-GTC password on the phone UI is more likely caused by the impatient WLAN access point behaviour than something being wrong on the phone side.
Some WLAN access points are by default configured to expect EAP authentication response packets from the client within a few seconds from the request that AP sends to client. Typically after AP's EAP response timeout occurs AP will trigger new EAP authentication sequence towards the client, causing yet another EAP-GTC password query on the client that user has again not enough time to answer properly.
This type of AP behaviour will cause a loop of consecutive password queries on the client side, which is especially problematic for such EAP authentication methods requiring user to enter their username/password credentials (i.e. GTC as well as MSCHAPv2 and LEAP in case credentials were not saved in advance in to the IAP settings).
Depending on the WLAN access point you might be able to adjust your AP's EAP timeout (sometimes referred as 802.1x) parameters so that AP will provide EAP clients more time to respond before initiating new (retry) authentication sequence. You could check your WLAN AP for a setting named something like "EAP timeout", "802.1x timeout" or similar and try increasing this value assuming such configuration parameter is available.
Another potential workaround (if your authentication infrastructure supports it and you are not using one-time-passwords) is to use PEAP or TTLS with MSCHAPv2 instead of EAP-GTC and save your MSCHAPv2 username/password credentials into the phone's IAP settings beforehand, which removes the need of password entry during the EAP authentication process.