On Fri August 8 2003 19:01, Mike Hall wrote: > 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.
If you send us the debug output of when an Orinoco unit authenticates and when a cisco tries to authenticate we will try to help you. Maybe others have cisco AP's and can help you, but I don't unfortunately. Cheers -- Peter Nixon http://www.peternixon.net/ PGP Key: http://www.peternixon.net/public.asc - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
