Wildcards in Username and Passwd

[Dennis Skinner]

Jason Montgomery wrote:
> Hello I have a customer who would like to have 100% MAC address lock
> down on their network.   To do that we are able to have the Ethernet
> Switches Send the Device MAC address as the Username and password to the
> Radius Server.   The question I have is on the radius server is it
> possible to set a wildcard so that any device showing “00-E0-BB” as the
> MAC Address prefix will automatically be accepted then I can throw the
> usual variables back at the port.  If this is possible then I can avoid
> having to enter 300 Devices into the Radius table.

This may give you some ideas:

http://wiki.freeradius.org/index.php/Adding%2C_Removing%2C_Modifying_Attributes_for_further_processing

But, I should warn you, that anyone wanting to break into your
customers' network can sneeze and have a machine fake a MAC address.
Hell, some Cisco equipment even have a builtin command to do it (handy
for replacing/upgrading routers without messing up local ARP tables).
Hopefully there is some other form of authentication.

-- 
Dennis Skinner
Systems Administrator
BlueFrog Internet
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