Who processes VLAN information?

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Wed May 25 11:02:49 CEST 2011


Alexandros Gougousoudis wrote:
> if I'am transmitting VLAN Information back to the supplicant,

  No, you're not.  RADIUS conversations are between a RADIUS client and
server.  The VLAN information is going to the client, i.e. switch.

> after an
> Acces-Accept (see below), who does this information use? Is it an
> information for the Switch, working an an Authenticator, to put the
> switchport into VLAN 22

  Yes.

> or is it for the Supplicant/Client to enable
> VLAN tagging and send all packets with the VLAN 22 tag?

  No.

> Who is honouring these information?

  The switch.  Maybe.  It is free to ignore the VLAN information.

  Alan DeKok.



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