(RADIATOR) EAPOL authentication for LANs

[Mike McCauley]

Thanks Frank,

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:57, Frank Danielson wrote:
> The Cisco PIX firewall has the option to do RADIUS authentication before
> allowing a TCP session to set up for a certain protocol. For example, if
> you wanted to control who was able to Telnet into your network through the
> firewall you could configure the PIX to check with your RADIUS server to
> see if the source IP is allowed. With all of the flexibility of a RADIUS
> server like Radiator you it doesn't take much to see why this is so much
> cooler than maintaing access lists or manually defining conduits on the
> firewall. The docs are on the Cisco site, I think if you search for PIX and
> RADIUS you'll come up with it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike McCauley [mailto:mikem at open.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 12:10 AM
> To: radiator at open.com.au
> Subject: (RADIATOR) EAPOL authentication for LANs
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I was speaking recently to someone who told me that Radaitor works fine
> with
>
> some type of router that requires EAPOL (EAP over LAN) authentication via
> Radius before it will let a client connected to the LAN route traffic.
>
> Does anyone have information or details about what devices support this
> behaviour. Anyone used it in anger. Can it be used to monitor and control
> access to a LAN segment?
>
> Responses direct to me please.
>
> Cheers.

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