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# cat users | more 0015c5537baa Cleartext-Password := "0015c5537baa" Tunnel-Type:0 = VLAN, Tunnel-Medium-Type:0 = IEEE-802, Tunnel-Private-Group-Id:0 = "3", Tunnel-Preference = 0x000000
[...] I managed to figure the issue of **authentication** and it's really embarrassing!
From copy/pasting the config there was a 'space' between the <username> attribute and getting rid of it just now the server started accepting the user :-)
Running the suggested debug commands on the switch it is claiming: "authorization failed" "accounting failed" mab failure due to 'dead server' I took the liberty of changing the Tunnel-Private-Group-Id to 20 since I have vlan 1 and 20 configured on the switch I am using in the hope that the laptop would get a DHCP address from the DHCP server configured on the switch, however I think due to the above errors there is something additional which needs to be done. Regards, Kaya