Re: EAP-TLS and PEAP redundancy options

2007-12-04 Thread John Paul
John Paul wrote: The issue is that if a machine is authenticated and the server that did the authentication is down, the switch will contact the other server and the EAP conversation will fail, causing authentication to fail. Research indicates that this is because the client and server have

Re: EAP-TLS and PEAP redundancy options

2007-12-04 Thread Alan DeKok
John Paul wrote: When I tested this the first time, authentications to server 1 worked and to server 2 did not. When I couldn't figure it out, I turned the test machines off and left for the day. The next day I had server 1 turned off - I turned the test machines on and authentications to

Re: EAP-TLS and PEAP redundancy options

2007-12-04 Thread tnt
Debug the switch. It's quite likely that it isn't marking the radius server that is down as dead but it tries it again when it recieves the challenge. Ivan Kalik Kalik informatika ISP Dana 4/12/2007, John Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] piše: John Paul wrote: The issue is that if a machine is

Re: EAP-TLS and PEAP redundancy options

2007-12-04 Thread John Paul
FreeRADIUS does not do session resumption. If the supplicant tries to do session resumption, I don't know what will happen. You should ensure that the supplicant has session resumption disabled. Windows does support it but it's switched off by default and I have verified this

Re: EAP-TLS and PEAP redundancy options

2007-12-04 Thread Phil Mayers
John Paul wrote: John Paul wrote: The issue is that if a machine is authenticated and the server that did the authentication is down, the switch will contact the other server and the EAP conversation will fail, causing authentication to fail. Research indicates that this is because the client

Re: EAP-TLS and PEAP redundancy options

2007-12-04 Thread Alan DeKok
Phil Mayers wrote: There are patches to enable this, but they have not, as yet, been integrated. In any case, they won't help you to fail over from one server to another. If/when those patches get integrated, it would be highly useful to support failover between servers. I guess the

Re: EAP-TLS and PEAP redundancy options

2007-12-04 Thread John Paul
On 12/4/2007 at 10:01 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debug the switch. It's quite likely that it isn't marking the radius server that is down as dead but it tries it again when it recieves the challenge. Bingo, we have a winner. The switch was attempting to contact

EAP-TLS and PEAP redundancy options

2007-12-03 Thread John Paul
Greetings, I have 2 FreeRadius servers set up, configured nearly identically. The idea is that if one is unavailable the NAS should look for the other. I'm attempting 802.1X with Cisco 2950s, which allow you to specify multiple RADIUS servers and automatically failover when one is unreachable.

Re: EAP-TLS and PEAP redundancy options

2007-12-03 Thread Alan DeKok
John Paul wrote: The issue is that if a machine is authenticated and the server that did the authentication is down, the switch will contact the other server and the EAP conversation will fail, causing authentication to fail. Research indicates that this is because the client and server have