On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

On 18/11/13 16:42, Russell Mike wrote:

Dear List

Please forgive me if my question is not good but i tried my best.

IEEE 802.1X and EAP The IEEE 802.1X protocol provides access control in
OSI Layer 2 (the MAC Layer).  IEEE.802.1X supports the authentication of

Sort of. The OSI model only maps partly to modern Ethernet/IP networks.

clients while establishing a connection to the network before the client
is assigned as IP address via DHCP ( Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol) Among other things. i am using CoovaChilli with FR and i need
to authenticate users before ip address & VLAN is assigned. i wish to
check if Freeradius EAP would work this way.

Yes. EAP works before IP is up, so you can select VLAN (and thus IP range) as part of the EAP post-auth.

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