I am struggling to get a windowsXP client to authenticate to freeradius. I've set up winbind/samba and radtest works from the command line on the freeradius server.
However the client doesn't seem to be able to contact the server when attached to a switch which supports .1x. During testing with wireshark I noticed that my switch (a 3com 3226) is sending EAP failure messages in response to the XP clients eap request. I don't see anything in the debug output of the freeradius server when I run it with /usr/sbin/freeradius -X
Can wireshark see radius packets between radius server and the switch? If not see switch documentation about setting up radius server for it. If yes - you have a firewall stopping the packets. Ivan Kalik Kalik Informatika ISP