Is my switch really communicating .1x with Freeradius?

[tnt at kalik.net]

>I am struggling to get a windowsXP client to authenticate to
>freeradius. I've set up winbind/samba and radtest works from the
>command line on the freeradius server.
>
>However the client doesn't seem to be able to contact the server when
>attached to a switch which supports .1x. During testing with wireshark
>I noticed that my switch (a 3com 3226) is sending EAP failure messages
>in response to the XP clients eap request. I don't see anything in the
>debug output of the freeradius server when I run it with
>/usr/sbin/freeradius -X
>

Can wireshark see radius packets between radius server and the switch? If
not see switch documentation about setting up radius server for it. If
yes - you have a firewall stopping the packets.

Ivan Kalik
Kalik Informatika ISP