HOW TO WIRED 802.1x FreeRadius RHEL6 configuration for Dummies?
All- brand New to linux and freeradius, networking. Im winging it as best I can. Linux: RHEL6 Linux System Admin Dropdown with INSTALLED filter shows: freeRadius 2.2.6-6.el6_7(x86_64) Command line "radiusd -v" shows "freeRadius version 3.0.8" Confused. I downloaded the RHEL6 compatible 2.2.6 RPM and installed it using yum. That was what I THOUGHT I was working with. I also ran Yum and updated the servers database, etc. Question 1: Are freeradius RPM files labeled differently than freeRadius installation versions? Meaning a 2.2.6.el6_7 RPM can actually be the binary of a freeRadius version 3.0.8? Then... Following the Using radtest and the HOW-TOs on the freeRadius site I have configured and was able to verify that the freeRadius Server authenticates PAP and EAP-MD5. I have spent several days trying to locate how to configure the freeRadius server and 802.1x Port Security in a LINUX ONLY (no ms windows) and WIRED only test lab on one RHEL6 linux box. I want to eventually enlarge upon that n/w setup to include at least one separate client node. One step at a time. I find many tutorials on how to configure "freeRadius/802.1x client/server" on WIFI and in MSwindows environment, or a combination of linux and MS Windows. Now, it may be my lack of experience and lack of linux/networking understanding, but I cannot confidently follow tutorials that are not in sync with my linux/wired only limitations, especially when written with certain assumptions of a knowledge / experience base/vocabulary that I do not possess at this time. Question 2: Is there any available how to guide that may prove more basic and "for dummies" that I may use to step through a freeRadius/802.1x/Wired only/RHEL linux Only process? thank you for your suggestions in advance. I spent many hours trying to answer this so I wouldnt have to ask. -nube
On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 06:59:04PM -0500, lux xul wrote:
brand New to linux and freeradius, networking. Im winging it as best I can.
Something to learn at the start then: you'll get a bit more credibility if you don't hide behind anonymous e-mail addresses and name.
Linux System Admin Dropdown with INSTALLED filter shows: freeRadius 2.2.6-6.el6_7(x86_64) Command line "radiusd -v" shows "freeRadius version 3.0.8"
Confused. I downloaded the RHEL6 compatible 2.2.6 RPM and installed it using yum. That was what I THOUGHT I was working with. I also ran Yum and updated the servers database, etc.
If you're using a supported distribution like RedHat and their packages don't seem right, then you should ask them.
Question 1: Are freeradius RPM files labeled differently than freeRadius installation versions? Meaning a 2.2.6.el6_7 RPM can actually be the binary of a freeRadius version 3.0.8?
Red Hat don't do stupid things like that, thankfully. So you need to check what you actually installed. You've probably got a local install being picked up rather than the packaged version. If you're starting from new, go for 3.0.x. Version 2 is EOL.
Now, it may be my lack of experience and lack of linux/networking understanding, but I cannot confidently follow tutorials that are not in sync with my linux/wired only limitations, especially when written with certain assumptions of a knowledge / experience base/vocabulary that I do not possess at this time.
RADIUS/EAP for wired and wireless is essentially the same.
Question 2: Is there any available how to guide that may prove more basic and "for dummies" that I may use to step through a freeRadius/802.1x/Wired only/RHEL linux Only process?
Follow a wireless guide. It will work. Just the switch config will be different from an AP config. Matthew -- Matthew Newton, Ph.D. <mcn4@le.ac.uk> Systems Specialist, Infrastructure Services, I.T. Services, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom For IT help contact helpdesk extn. 2253, <ithelp@le.ac.uk>
On Nov 6, 2015, at 6:59 PM, lux xul <freeradiushelp@gmail.com> wrote:
Following the Using radtest and the HOW-TOs on the freeRadius site I have configured and was able to verify that the freeRadius Server authenticates PAP and EAP-MD5. I have spent several days trying to locate how to configure the freeRadius server and 802.1x Port Security in a LINUX ONLY (no ms windows) and WIRED only test lab on one RHEL6 linux box. I want to eventually enlarge upon that n/w setup to include at least one separate client node. One step at a time.
The main FreeRADIUS site points to docs on how to configure 802.1X. See http:/deployingradius.com/ If you want to know how to configure the client side... go read the docs for the client. There are hundreds of possible 802.1X clients. We can't document all of them.
I find many tutorials on how to configure "freeRadius/802.1x client/server" on WIFI and in MSwindows environment, or a combination of linux and MS Windows.
They should help you somewhat.
Now, it may be my lack of experience and lack of linux/networking understanding, but I cannot confidently follow tutorials that are not in sync with my linux/wired only limitations, especially when written with certain assumptions of a knowledge / experience base/vocabulary that I do not possess at this time.
Then learn. If you think you can successfully configure a complex system you don't understand... you don't understand how complex it is.
Question 2: Is there any available how to guide that may prove more basic and "for dummies" that I may use to step through a freeRadius/802.1x/Wired only/RHEL linux Only process?
Ask RH how to configure their clients to do 802.1X. We document FreeRADIUS. Alan DeKok.
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