Thanks!  I didn't actually know about the eapol_test utility.  I'll get
that and see what I get.  Oddly enough, when searching the PacketFence
archives, none of my searches popped up a reference to that tool.  Oh well,
at least now I have something more definitive to search for. =)

Thanks,
Joshua Nathan
Level 3 IT Support and Development
Black Forest Academy
+49 (0) 7626-9161-630


On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Louis Munro <[email protected]> wrote:

> Didn’t quite finish that post…
>
> Regardless of which EAP method you use, I can’t recommend eapol_test
> enough.
> It will allow to test your configuration in a reproducible manner and
> eliminate the supplicant and OS from the equation.
>
> Google around for instructions regarding building eapol_test.
> The first hit will probably be good enough.
> The archives will also provide numerous time where I explained it.
> (hint: on RedHat and derivatives the two build dependencies are
> libnl-devel and openssl-devel).
>
> Once you have a successful eapol_test authentication going, then it’s time
> to start testing with an actual device to find out how to configure it.
>
> Experience has shown me that testing with hardware before the
> configuration is shown to be valid is only a recipe for more frustration.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Louis Munro
> [email protected]  ::  www.inverse.ca
> +1.514.447.4918 x125  :: +1 (866) 353-6153 x125
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>
> On Apr 7, 2016, at 9:56 , Louis Munro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
> Let’s take this one step at a time.
>
> Both PEAP and EAP-TLS are configured through
> /usr/local/pf/radiusd/eap.conf.
> Please paste that file for our perusal.
>
> Essentially, when using either the server certificate must be valid.
> Which means that the supplicant must be able to validate the chain of
> trust all the way up to a known trusted root.
> So if your server certificate was signed by an intermdiate cert (itself
> signed by a trusted root CA) you will need to provide the supplicant with
> both the server cert and the intermediate so that the chain is complete.
> The usual way to do that is to concatenate both the server and
> intermediate certificate in the same file to which you then point
> FreeRADIUS (as it’s server cert file).
>
>
> Regards,
> --
> Louis Munro
> [email protected]  ::  www.inverse.ca
> +1.514.447.4918 x125  :: +1 (866) 353-6153 x125
> Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence (
> www.packetfence.org)
>
> On Apr 7, 2016, at 6:57 , Nathan, Josh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Has anyone else come across this, or is it time for a rebuild?
>
> It makes me wonder if something similar is happening even with the TLS
> connection because Windows won't connect even if I turn off Server
> Certificate Validation.  When I tell the Windows Provisioner that it's a
> PEAP connection, the CA install fails.  All of this is on PacketFence
> 5.5.2, sitting on CentOS 6.7.
>
> I can actually just tell my Android to connect to the WPA2-Enterprise
> network, and it'll hash out the PEAP without trouble even if I don't use a
> provisioner.  I'll confess I've only tried with a provisioner on iOS, but
> it works... I just am presented somehow with the default RADIUS certificate
> with all the bogus information (country: FR, locality: Somewhere, CA:
> Example Certificate Authority, etc).
>
> Thanks,
> Joshua Nathan
> Level 3 IT Support and Development
> Black Forest Academy
> +49 (0) 7626-9161-630
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Nathan, Josh <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> OK, so I've been having no luck with getting EAP-TLS to work properly
>> with my Windows computers, but I'm interested in testing PEAP.  However, I
>> can see from my iPad that RADIUS *always* hands out its own self-made CA
>> cert for PEAP.  I've even removed the entire raddb/certs directory,
>> restarted radius, and it still somehow pulls out its own cert.  I have the
>> certs I made with the PacketFence PKI setup in the eap.conf file, but I'm
>> guessing they're not applying because they're contained within the tls
>> block.  I tried copying down the line for the CA file into the peap block,
>> but it didn't make a difference.  Is this tree even with barking down?  How
>> do I direct the cert to be used when PEAP is in use?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joshua Nathan
>> Level 3 IT Support and Development
>> Black Forest Academy
>> +49 (0) 7626-9161-630
>>
>>
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