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<DIV>I haven't configured a 3com 3226 but 3com 5500's have a configuration such as:</DIV>
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<DIV>radius scheme MyRadius<BR> server-type extended<BR> primary authentication 192.168.0.10<BR> primary accounting 192.168.0.10<BR> key authentication mysecret<BR> key accounting mysecret<BR> user-name-format without-domain<BR>#<BR>domain dot1x<BR> authentication radius-scheme MyRadius<BR> accounting radius-scheme MyRadius</DIV>
<DIV> undo dot1x timer handshake-period</DIV>
<DIV><BR>interface GigabitEthernet1/0/5</DIV>
<DIV> poe enable<BR> stp edged-port enable<BR> broadcast-suppression pps 3000<BR> undo jumboframe enable<BR> dot1x<BR> apply qos-profile default<BR><BR></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> john <lists.john@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> FreeRadius users mailing list <freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, April 7, 2009 2:44:26 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Is my switch really communicating .1x with Freeradius?<BR></FONT><BR>Hello all,<BR><BR>I am struggling to get a windowsXP client to authenticate to<BR>freeradius. I've set up winbind/samba and radtest works from the<BR>command line on the freeradius server.<BR><BR>However the client doesn't seem to be able to contact the server when<BR>attached to a switch which supports .1x. During testing with wireshark<BR>I noticed that my switch (a 3com 3226) is sending EAP failure messages<BR>in response to the XP clients eap request. I don't see anything in the<BR>debug output of the freeradius server when I
run it with<BR>/usr/sbin/freeradius -X<BR><BR>It seems to me that my 3Com switch isn't really communicating with the<BR>freeradius server. Can someone help me figure out how to make sure<BR>that my NAS is talking to the server?<BR><BR>Thanks!<BR><BR><BR>John<BR>-<BR>List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See <A href="http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html" target=_blank>http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html</A><BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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