On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:55:32AM +0100, Alan DeKok wrote:
> Tim Gustafson wrote:
> > I am running FreeRADIUS on FreeBSD 7.1 for my Cisco wireless APs to 
> > authenticate against.  The clients are using MSCHAPv2 and XP and Mac OSX 
> > (as well as several wireless devices like iPhones and so on) are able to 
> > authenticate against the WAPs just fine, but Vista is failing.  In my log I 
> > have:
> > 
> > Auth: Login OK: [test] (from client ucsc-60-40 port 0 via TLS tunnel)
> > Auth: Login incorrect: [test/<via Auth-Type = EAP>] (from client foo port 
> > 519 cli xxxx.xxxx.xxxx)
> 
>   Don't look at radius.log to debug problems.  Run in debugging mode.
> 
> > I Googled for Vista/FreeRADIUS/MSCHAPv2 and found some kerfuffle about 
> > there being problems with FreeRADIUS 1.1.3, but I'm running 2.0.5 so I'm 
> > assuming that my server is not affected by the 1.1.3 problem.  The 
> > kerfuffle seemed to be related to a TLS problem, and based on the log 
> > entries above, it seems to me that the TLS tunnel is working fine, but the 
> > encapsulated packet is not.
> 
>   Don't guess.  Run in debugging mode and be sure.
> 
> > Incidentally, we also tried on a Windows 7 Beta machine, which experienced 
> > the exact same symptoms as the Vista machine.
> > 
> > Also, this set-up was working in December and then stopped working 
> > somewhere along the way.  I'm wondering if perhaps Microsoft release some 
> > sort of "fix" since then that actually broke something.
> 
>   They have been known to do that.  They make gratuitous changes to the
> clients to ensure that they break compatibility with *all* non-MS RADIUS
> servers.  They've done this multiple times.
> 
> > And, just to be complete about it, if we point the WAP to an Active 
> > Directory RADIUS server the set-up works as-is.
> 
>   Of course!  Microsoft is compatible with themselves.
> 
> > Any ideas what might be going on?
> 
>   Post the full debugging output.
> 
>   Alan DeKok.
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For what it is worth, we are running Freeradius 2.1.3 using Cisco
wireless APs with PEAP/MSCHAPv2 and TTLS/PAP and are not having any
problems. I will say, that the full debug output is very useful in
determining any problems and how to resolve them.

Cheers,
Ken
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