King, Michael MKing at bridgew.edu
Thu Mar 15 15:55:55 CET 2007


What manufacturer makes the NAS (the wireless controller?)

I would look to the Called-Station field.  Usually (Based on Cisco AP's) this is the MAC of the AP, followed by the SSID they connected to. 

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> I have a situation where I have a wireless controller that 
> services multiple wireless networks (vlans).  When the 
> controller contacts the RADIUS server with an authentication 
> request, it does so with the IP address of the controller as 
> the client address.  The problem is I have a guest network 
> that has lower security than my other wireless networks.  The 
> guest network has it's own user/password database stored in 
> the controller, but the way authentication occurs is that it 
> checks RADIUS for the user first and assumes it will fail, 
> then will use the internal database.  The issue with this is 
> that if one of my users jumps on the guest network, they are 
> authenticated which is not what I want to happen.  Looking at 
> the logs, I noticed that all the guest network users have the 
> IP address of the client in the "cli" field.  My guest 
> network is a totally different VLAN and IP subnet.
> 
> Is there a way to key off of the "cli" field and then make it 
> so that all requests from clients with a specific subnet in 
> this field are not authenticated?  This would stop my 
> internal users from connecting, but allow the correct users 
> (those in the internal DB) to still get connected.
> 
> Thanks.
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