problem with Dell connection manager?

1 May 2007

      HI All

We are running our wireless using FR to authenticate against LDAP. A user
can login on a laptop, no problem, but when he then goes to a Dell laptop
which uses a Dell Connection Manager program, it fails. 

The odd thing is is that in both cases there is an Access-Accept packet
going out, except for the Dell, it does not assign a vlan (which is probably
why it's failing). Since it's the same userID loggin in, I'm not sure why
the vlan is not being passed. The only thing I can see is that the username
field in the Access-Request is preceeded by "\\" in the case of the Dell,
and not so in the case of the working laptop. 

Here's the Access-Request from the one that works:
rad_recv: Access-Request packet from host 172.17.0.1:20001, id=166,
length=144
        NAS-Port-Id = "2049/1"
        Calling-Station-Id = "00-15-E9-D9-94-85"
        Called-Station-Id = "00-15-E8-E0-E6-00:Wireless@UNB"
        Service-Type = Framed-User
        EAP-Message = 0x02010008016d6461
        User-Name = "mda"
        NAS-Port = 4596
        NAS-Port-Type = Wireless-802.11
        NAS-Identifier = "nortel"
        NAS-IP-Address = 172.17.0.1

And here is the Access-Request from the one that does not work (notice the
username field):
rad_recv: Access-Request packet from host 172.17.0.1:20001, id=161,
length=146
        NAS-Port-Id = "2049/1"
        Calling-Station-Id = "00-13-02-77-97-CB"
        Called-Station-Id = "00-15-E8-E0-E6-00:Wireless@UNB"
        Service-Type = Framed-User
        EAP-Message = 0x02010009015c6d6461
        User-Name = "\\mda"
        NAS-Port = 4593
        NAS-Port-Type = Wireless-802.11
        NAS-Identifier = "nortel"
        NAS-IP-Address = 172.17.0.1

In both cases there is an access-accept, but vlan is only returned in the
case of the first one. Any ideas on a workaround?

Thanks for any advice.

Cheers

Matt Ashfield
mda@unb.ca