Chances are good you could just use the Hostapd switch type if it supports
standards based RADIUS responses and RADIUS COA.
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Nguyen Nam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
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> PacketFence noob here asking for advices.
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> Our setup included one WLC (unsupported by PacketFence), PacketFence and
> Freeradius. Remote clients authenticate using 802.1X against Radius
> database (we use DaloRadius for quick test).
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> The authentication part run well, but after the post-auth, we got
> Access-Reject with "Reply-Message = "Switch is not managed by
> PacketFence",probably from rlm_perl. Sure enough, our WLC was not
> registered in PacketFence switches.conf.
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> To make PacketFence accept our WLC, I added a dummy switch configuration
> into switches.conf, with mode=testing, that help to get the Access-Accept
> from PacketFence radius.
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> If I understand it right, the way Packetfence works with the switches is:
> reading MAC from SNMP trap, after Radius authentication, using SNMP write
> to trig the switch to put devices into specific VLAN.
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> Questions is: can we achieve the same effect using Radius?? Our WLC
> already support Tunnel-Type, Tunnel-Medium-Type,Tunnel-Private-Group-ID
> inside the Radius Access-Accept, so WLC can put the devices into right VLAN
> anyway. Therefore dropping a need for supported switch??
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> Thanks for your time,
> Nam Nguyen
> Diginet JSC.,
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