Current Lucent/Orinoco AP firmware supports three methods of Access Control: AP Authentication (MAC address authentication via an Access Control Table inside the AP) RADIUS (MAC address authentication via a RADIUS server) 802.1x Authentication (MAC address authentication via 802.1x Port-based Access Control)
This functionality is supported even on older WavePOINT II models ... so checking for a firmware upgrade is worthwhile ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael S. McCollough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 12:29 PM Subject: RE: Using Radius for Mac Auth. with Wireless Internet. I do not see the possibility of being able to do it any other way. Basically if the Access Point does not provide an authentication means, other than perhaps a static MAC table which you must update by hand, then it is going to accept the connection (unless you setup and require encryption which again, on a non-external auth access point is going to be a manual process). A lot of access points have flash updates and vendors have been adding radius auth to it, check your vendor. You get what you pay for but even some of the cheap Aps are doing radius. -- Michael -----Original Message----- From: Esteban A. Maríngolo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Using Radius for Mac Auth. with Wireless Internet. What about if the Access Point doesn't support RADIUS functionality? Only a few APs support RADIUS, and LEAP/EAP. -- Esteban. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael S. McCollough Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 12:01 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Using Radius for Mac Auth. with Wireless Internet. Wireless access points to simple auth. Username will be the MAC address with the password same as the radius secret (most ones I have used anyway. Username will be either in the format 00-00-00-00-00-00 or 000000-000000 Basically, go into your access point and point it to the radius server and give it the secret Setup your access point as a client on the radius server and fill in the secret Setup usernames in the users file or in /etc/passwd file if you have unix auth configured (see above for username and password details). -----Original Message----- From: Stephan Viljoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: Using Radius for Mac Auth. with Wireless Internet. I'm not sure if this message reached the list , if it did then I'm truly sorry. Hi , I need to setup radius to authenticate an incomming connection VIA Wireless on the incomming PC's Mac Adress. Is there a HOWTO or some documentation laying around somewhere? I know how to auth. the incomming NAS but don't have any idea what the User details should look like in radius it self. I'm using freeradius 0.3 with Mysql Authentication. Kind Regards Stephan.+-ŠwèþË›±ÊâmïîžË›±Êâmäžzm§ÿðà ëyêÚv+¬¢¸?–+-þë ®Èm - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
