AW: AW: MAC authentification

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Wed Oct 22 11:58:05 CEST 2008


Frederik.Niedernolte at Bertelsmann.de wrote:
> Isn't it possible without a password?

  Look at the debug output to see what the NAS is sending you.  *I*
don't have access to your NAS.

> In the current situation I only add a MAC address to an access point and the client can connect to it.
> Because of many access points this task should be done by the RADIUS-server for all access points.
> So every access point should forward the authentification request from the client to the RADIUS-server.
> This server should check if the clients MAC address is allowed and then send back the result to the access point.

  Yes... this isn't the first time we've seen requests for MAC
authentication.  We know how it works.

  We *don't* know exactly what your NAS puts in the packets.  That's why
we suggest debugging mode.

  Alan DeKok.



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