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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>He approached the problem differently than most people. He already had a database with the MAC addresses. Due to a deployment mistake in the past he did not have the passwords from each of 500 EAP clients. So rather than going out and changing those addresses he matches up the MAC address with a paying customer from the database.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The person is in charge of a wireless ISP so scheduling 500 home visits was a worse option than writing some code to authorize the CPE.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Russell Mike [mailto:radius.sir@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February 24, 2013 10:00 AM<br><b>To:</b> David Peterson-WirelessConnections; FreeRadius users mailing list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: MAC-Auth + Freeradius + MySQL Database<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:55 PM, David Peterson <<a href="mailto:davidp@wirelessconnections.net" target="_blank">davidp@wirelessconnections.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I know of one person doing something similar to what you are looking to do. If your NAS sends the MAC of the device with the EAP request, you can extract the MAC from the request using unlang and check that against a database of MACs.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>No clue how to do this, I just know it can be done.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>David</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Dear David, thanks for attending to the request, what do you mean when you say </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:red'>"one person doing something similar to what you are looking to do"</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>. </span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Does other do the MAC-Auth in different way i am doing? </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>I read the response from Mr. Alan De. about storing MAC in to Database. Following wiki also explain how to rewrite calling-station-id using unlang and further compair against file or DB. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://wiki.freeradius.org/guide/Mac-Auth#Mac-Auth-authorisation-by-SSID-SQL" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>http://wiki.freeradius.org/guide/Mac-Auth#Mac-Auth-authorisation-by-SSID-SQL</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Your information is appreciable. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Thanks / Regards</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>RM -</span>-<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>