Auto connect users using freeradius

[Alan DeKok]

On Aug 23, 2020, at 8:52 AM, Muhammed Buvaydani via Freeradius-Users <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
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> Hello, I  am trying to configure freeradius to auto-authenticate or connect users. let's say I have mac address table which has a whitelist for mac address, how can I configure freeradius to connect these mac address automatically without a web page,

  You don't.

  You configure the NAS to do MAC address authentication.  That sends a RADIUS packet with the MAC address to FreeRADIUS.  FreeRADIUS can then look that MAC up in the database, and return accept / reject.

> I don't know how can I do that, actually I am working on hotspot system, I can connect users when they send request from a web page, but what about the devices which do not have web browser like (Printer), how can I do that.

  See the hotspot documentation for how to configure MAC address authentication.

  In short, the RADIUS server needs to get MAC addresses in the Access-Request packets.  If that doesn't happen, then no amount of poking the RADIUS server will make things magically work.

  Alan DeKok.