Because it's an SG series Switch it's missing quite a bit of features that
you'd expect in an enterprise grade switch.

I've opened a ticket with Cisco to see what they say.

Thanks for your help :-)

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 3:02 PM Fabrice Durand <[email protected]> wrote:

> In fact it suppose to be the switch to do that, waiting for 802.1x and
> after a time doing mac-auth.
>
> Are you sure that the switch is correctly configured for 802.1x ?
> Le 19-04-04 à 14 h 29, Stuart Gendron a écrit :
>
> So I poked around some more and I think my issue may be with the way the
> switch is configured.
>
> I'm monitoring the following log */usr/local/pf/logs/packetfence.log*
>
> When I unplug and plug back in my device, it sends the MAC address right
> away:
>
> *Apr  4 18:21:21 PacketFence-ZEN packetfence_httpd.aaa: httpd.aaa(2057)
> INFO: [mac:a8:60:b6:09:77:45] handling radius autz request: from switch_ip
> => (10.100.64.67), connection_type => Ethernet-NoEAP,switch_mac =>
> (88:f0:77:d9:b2:48), mac => [a8:60:b6:09:77:45], port => 49, username =>
> "a860b6097745" (pf::radius::authorize)*
>
> This then puts that switchport into the Registration VLAN
>
> *Apr  4 18:21:21 PacketFence-ZEN packetfence_httpd.aaa: httpd.aaa(2057)
> INFO: [mac:a8:60:b6:09:77:45] is of status unreg; belongs into registration
> VLAN (pf::role::getRegistrationRole)*
>
> This causes the device to just sit there in that VLAN without the 802.1x
> prompt coming up - which is the prompt I want.
>
> I believe the Cisco SG300 switch that I'm using, with a dumbed down
> version of Cisco IOS, doesn't fully support MAC authentication as the
> fallback (at least all my Googling around isn't bringing anything up).
>
> Ideally I would plug the device into the switchport, and if it's deemed
> not able to do 802.1x authentication, it then fallsback to MAC address
> authentication. This may not be possible with my current setup...
>
> Is there something on the PacketFence side that will wait a bit before
> sending the request to put the switchport in the registration VLAN?
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 2:18 PM Fabrice Durand via PacketFence-users <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello Stuart,
>>
>>
>> Le 19-04-04 à 13 h 38, Stuart Gendron via PacketFence-users a écrit :
>>
>> Just getting started with PacketFence and am struggling with something.
>>
>> So I'm using a Cisco SG300 as my test switch, and it does both 802.1x and
>> MAC address authentication (MAB).
>>
>> I'm finding that once I get authenticated using 802.1x credentials I can
>> then pop around to other switch ports and get through without needing to
>> provide credentials again (I assume because the MAC address is
>> authenticated?).
>>
>> You need to check if when you unplug/plug packetfence receive a new
>> radius request.
>>
>> If it's not the case then it's not normal.
>>
>> Also you need to see what kind of authentication is made each time, is it
>> 802.1x or mac auth ?
>>
>>
>> This is fine, however when I set the device to unauthorized, I don't
>> receive a prompt for username/password again. I believe what happens is the
>> MAC gets sent first, PacketFence then sets the request as Accept, but
>> unregistered so sends it to the appropriate VLAN, and on the switch the
>> state is Authenticated (as PacketFence technically authenticated it?).
>>
>> It depend how you configured packetfence, if you enable autoregistration
>> for 802.1x then probably your device keep the credential and retry with
>> them to authenticate.
>>
>> If fact you need to provide more information about your pf config, like
>> do you register on a portal / do you autoregister, do you have a connection
>> profile per connection type ?
>>
>> If you can resume your config it will help to understand what happen
>> exactly.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Fabrice
>>
>>
>> Not sure if this makes sense.
>>
>> Ideally a device would do 802.1x by default, then fall back to MAB if
>> needed.
>>
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>>
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