WAX610 – 802.1X Supplicant on Wired Uplink Port – Feature Availability

kazh wrote:

Hello NETGEAR Support Team,

Hello kazh​ ,

Nice to meet you here. However, this is a community - mainly kept alive by volunteers -  and not a formal support channel.

kazh wrote:

Does the WAX610 currently support 802.1X supplicant functionality on its wired uplink port?

As a long term Beta tester, active users of a large number of NTGR switches and APs, and active community member, I'm afraid, and tend to say no. Never seen it at least in the Web UI and the fine documentation for now.

kazh wrote:

This is a fairly standard enterprise security requirement, and I believe many customers deploying WAX610 in environments where physical security of the AP cannot be fully guaranteed would benefit from it.

Excellent idea. Aware this exists on the much more expensive APs from some competitors.

kazh wrote:

Does the WAX610 currently support 802.1X supplicant functionality on its wired uplink port?

As a long term Beta tester and active community member, I'm afraid, and tend to say no.

kazh wrote:

If not, is this feature on the roadmap for a future firmware release?

Netgear does not publish roadmaps and further intentions.

Keep in mind, adding such a feature does span wide, some API  definitions for Netgear Insight and Netgear Engage need to be implemented, too.  And of course, much more APs like the current WBE7xx, as well as future APs need a bigger feature set.

Further on, both the WAX610/WAX620 are relative old models. As such, the request for these (and several newer WAX6xx) might be very optimistic. You can try your luck anyway -> Feature Requests | NETGEAR Communities 

Regards,

-Kurt