query on hostapd

[SIMON BABY]

Thank you Dave

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

> On Tue, 22 Apr 2025, Dave Funk 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.
>>
>
> OK, sorry, I did not know what "hostapd" was. It is still the case that
> this is not a radius question, it is a "hostapd" configuration question.
>
> If you look for the hostapd mailing list you will probably get more useful
> information about it:
> http://w1.fi/hostapd/
> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
>
> Also google for "linux hostapd" gets a bunch of hits.
>
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