Several Access Requests after a succesfully authentication

[Alan DeKok]

On Oct 24, 2018, at 11:38 AM, Tom Yard <tomyyard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear people, I have a Freeradius server that authenticate users against an
> AD in order to access the WiFi network:
> 
> Once a user authenticates OK and access the WiFi network, in the debug log
> of Freeradius I notice that this user has several access requests at the
> same time he is using the WiFi correctly.

  EAP authentication uses multiple round trips.

> Why is this behaviour? Because I thougth the access requests are used only
> when the user is going to authenticate and never.

  That's how EAP works.  It sets up a TLS tunnel between the end user machine and the RADIUS server.  This involves exchanging many packets.

  Alan DeKok.