query on hostapd

[SIMON BABY]

Thank you Dave. Yes with regular port I can see radius packets at the the
radius sever and between the client and hostapd I see EAPOL packets.

Can you suggest what value needs to write in the fwd_mask for this to work
for bridge interface ?

Regards
Simon

On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, Dave Funk <dbfunk at engineering.uiowa.edu> wrote:

> 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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