Hi,

The xauth-radius authentication method encapsulates the XAUTH credentials in 
RADIUS packets. It does not translate an EAP conversation to XAUTH.

Kind regards

Noel


On 22.12.2017 21:33, Kyle Seever wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently trying to integrate strongSwan (v5.3.5) with a PAP-only RADIUS 
> proxy. Currently, I'm using a client profile of IKEv2 with EAP which connects 
> to strongSwan without issue. strongSwan is configured with 
> /rightauth=eap-radius/ and /rightauth2=xauth-radius:profile/. My reading of 
> the eap-radius#xauth 
> <https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/EAPRAdius#XAuth> plugin 
> was such that it would translate the EAP conversation to regular XAuth 
> credentials sent to the RADIUS backend via the regular User-Name and 
> User-Password attributes. When I inspect the network traffic, the plugin is 
> still encapsulating the EAP messages back to the AAA.
>
> What am I misunderstanding about the builtin XAuth backend in the plugin, and 
> what are some options I have going forward? Will I have to downgrade to 
> traditional XAuth over IKEv1?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -Kyle

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