query on hostapd

[Dave Funk]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025, SIMON BABY wrote:

> Hello Team,
>
> Do we have to enable anything in the bridge interface in Linux for
> processing EAPOL packets ? Currently the bridge in my setup cannot
> detect EAPOL packets.  However the DSA lan ports are able to detect.
> The bridge interface contains the lan ports.
>
> Regards
> Simon

Technically you should not see any EAPOL packets at your radius server.

You should see the rad-request/rad-account UDP 1812 & 1813 (and possibly tcp 
1812 & 1813) packets at your radius server so you will need to be sure those 
packets make it in thru what ever network config is implemented on the system 
hosting your radius server.

EAPOL is the network protocol that your WPA supplicants (wireless devices & 
laptops) use to communicate to your wireless access-points and they use 
UDP 1812/1813 to send the request to your radius server.


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