Cesar SANCHO PRADEL wrote:
I am new to Radius so sorry in advance if my question has a simple obvious answer.
Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't.
I have a FreeRADIUS Server running on a linux box, with mySQL holding the list of users/passwords.
radtest seems to work fine, but when I try to connect a laptop (Windows 7) or an iPad (iOS) via WIFI it does not work (they cannot connect).
Read http://deployingradius.com/ It has detailed instructions for configuring FreeRADIUS, for WiFi access. If you follow the instructions, it will work.
If I run freeradiusd -X, I can see all the steps taken during radtest,
That is good, but it isn't enough to make WiFi work.
however when I try to connect with my laptop or iPad, there is no output from freeradius -X.
Then your Access Point hasn't been configured to do RADIUS. Or, the firewall rules on your RADIUS server are blocking RADIUS packets.
Any other device that tries to connect fails silently (i.e. no debug info displaied), as if the radius server did not receive any request at all.
Then the RADIUS server didn't receive any request at all.
My questions are: 1) Do I need a particular client application in the client machine or should I be able to connect directly from any device/OS?
You don't need anything special on the client. Certificates help, but see the http://deployingradius.com/ guide for details.
2) Are the modifications to clients.conf correct based on my network?
They seem OK.
3) The shared key I set in MY_WIFI_ROUTER (i.e. 9F6A5757EF) should match the "secret" set in the clientś.info, right?
Yes.
4) Any ideas/help to be able to connect a device (e.g. my iPad or Laptop) via freeradius server would be appreciated.
Find out why the RADIUS server isn't seeing packets. Do network-level / firewall debugging. Alan DeKok.