FreeRadius MAC address authorization (no authentication)

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Fri Aug 8 09:09:32 CEST 2008


Ramot Lubis wrote:
> Yes, I aim not to install hotfix in Windows XP client.

  Good luck.

> My main purpose is to check valid MAC address of every Wireless Device
> (with Windows XP SP2).
> Based on "radiusd -X" log in my previous email, I tried to conclude
> that even in Authorization phase, calling-station-id has been
> validated to be match with MAC address data in SQL db. In this case, I
> don't need further Authentication phase.

  That's not how EAP-TLS works.

> However, I dont know how to configure radius server to ignore
> authentication phase. Is there any idea for me to follow?

  If you only need to do MAC authentication, see MAC authentication
bypass, which is in Cisco switches.

  Alan DeKok.



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