query on hostapd

[SIMON BABY]

Thank you Dave.
Sorry I was asking the group_fwd_mask sysfs setting for the bridge
interface to forward multicasts pockets and not for the radius.

I will ask the question to different group then.

Regards
Simon



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

> On Tue, 22 Apr 2025, SIMON BABY wrote:
>
> 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 ?
>>
>>
> radius does not have a "fwd_mask" parameter so this is not a radius
> question.
>
> As I said, UDP/TCP 1812 & 1813 traffic from your access points ("hostapd"
> ?)
> needs to reach your radius server.
>
> You need to configure your Linux system hosting your radius server so that
> happens. If you are running radius inside some kind of
> container/vitalization system (EG: Docker, virtual-box, etc), then you need
> to set the network configuration for those systems to make the above happen.
>
> You need to direct your "fwd_mask" question to the appropriate group
> discussing what ever technology you are using, this is outside of radius.
>
>
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