Hi, I work for a major University and we have been using Freeradius to do MAC authentication with Orinoco (Avaya,Proxim) based access point for about 2 years. We have had no problems, and loved our decision to implement Freeradius instead of a commercial package.
Now, many departments want to use the Cisco Aironet line. To our dismay, we have discovered that they do not authenticate in the same way as the Orinoco units. I think it has something to do with the Cisco-AVPair string which is sent to the radius server and/or the Attribute Value fields. I also think it has related to the Auth-Type string and/or the dictionary.cisco file. We use a Mysql database to store the user-names (MAC Addresses). The little info I have found on the internet is very unclear on what I should to fix this. I have all the output of mysql/freeradius, but it has been a nightmare trying to decipher it. Has anyone ran across this problem, and if so, could you please tell what I can do to make Freeradius compatible with Cisco Aironet access points? I can send you any info/logs about our setup that you need. I cannot begin to tell you how much I will appreciate any help you can give us. Thanks, Mike Hall Telecom Analyst - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
