[RADIATOR] EAP outer handler problems

Barry Ard barry.ard at ualberta.ca
Thu Feb 25 21:03:09 CST 2010


Thanks for the reply Kam, we are having a bunch of problems and are 
involving Cisco. The cert doesn't expire until next year but we have had 
situations where unchecking "verify server cert" has allowed a client to 
connect.

Barry

On 10-02-25 8:39 AM, Kam Ng wrote:
> I saw similar symptom before. My problem was attributed to a server (one
> runs Radiator) cert problem as I used self-signed cert in the test env and
> the window XP WLAN client somehow not warned the user about it. It all
> worked once I unselect cert check on the client. Of course, this is only
> acceptable in test env..:-)
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> Based on this observation, you may want to check to see if your server cert
> has been expired... Just a thought.
>
> Kam
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>    |Hugh Irvine<hugh at open.com.au>                                                                                                                     |
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>    |Radiator list<radiator at open.com.au>                                                                                                               |
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>    |02/24/2010 07:56 PM                                                                                                                               |
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>    |radiator-bounces at open.com.au                                                                                                                      |
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> Thanks Hugh,
> I didn't notice the EAP-Message attribute but I am happy to here that is
> a client problem, there seems to be a lot of them.
>
> Barry
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> On 10-02-24 4:43 PM, Hugh Irvine wrote:
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>> Hello Barry -
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>> This is not a Radiator problem - it is the supplicant not sending any
>>      
> data.
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>> Notice the EAP-Message attribute containing just the header - no data.
>>
>> BTW - this looks like a machine authentication ("host/Rock").
>>
>> regards
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>> Hugh
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>> On 25 Feb 2010, at 10:18, Barry Ard wrote:
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>>> I have been noticing lately a situation where our eap outer handler does
>>> not seem to send a reply:
>>>
>>> *** Received from 127.0.0.1 port 32946 ....
>>> Code:       Access-Request
>>> Identifier: 75
>>> Authentic:<7><141><147>/<233>G<129><255>A<15><241>L<240><138>F<204>
>>> Attributes:
>>>          User-Name = "host/Rock"
>>>          Calling-Station-Id = "00-0e-35-6d-1a-9b"
>>>          Called-Station-Id = "00-23-04-f2-f9-e0:UWS"
>>>          NAS-Port = 29
>>>          NAS-IP-Address = 172.20.252.18
>>>          NAS-Identifier = "MECE-WiSM#1"
>>>          Airespace-WLAN-Id = 2
>>>          Service-Type = Framed-User
>>>          Framed-MTU = 1300
>>>          NAS-Port-Type = Wireless-IEEE-802-11
>>>          Tunnel-Type = 0:VLAN
>>>          Tunnel-Medium-Type = 0:802
>>>          Tunnel-Private-Group-ID = 0:2050
>>>          EAP-Message =<2><17><0><6><25><0>
>>>          State = EAPBALANCE:id=1
>>>          Message-Authenticator = 1./~<21>"M$<170>=By<30><201><137><207>
>>>
>>> Wed Feb 24 15:51:15 2010: DEBUG: Handling request with Handler ''
>>> Wed Feb 24 15:51:15 2010: DEBUG: Rewrote user name to Rock
>>> Wed Feb 24 15:51:15 2010: DEBUG: Rewrote user name to Rock
>>> Wed Feb 24 15:51:15 2010: DEBUG:  Deleting session for host/Rock,
>>> 172.20.252.18, 29
>>> Wed Feb 24 15:51:15 2010: DEBUG: Handling with Radius::AuthFILE:
>>> Wed Feb 24 15:51:15 2010: DEBUG: Handling with EAP: code 2, 17, 6, 25
>>> Wed Feb 24 15:51:15 2010: DEBUG: Response type 25
>>> Wed Feb 24 15:51:15 2010: DEBUG: EAP result: 2, EAP PEAP Nothing to read
>>> or write
>>> Wed Feb 24 15:51:15 2010: DEBUG: AuthBy FILE result: IGNORE, EAP PEAP
>>> Nothing to read or write
>>>
>>> The handler is configured as:
>>> <Handler>
>>>      RewriteUsername     s/(.*)\/(.*)/$2/
>>>      RewriteUsername     s/(.*)\\(.*)/$2/
>>>      <AuthBy FILE>
>>>          Filename                /dev/null
>>>          EAPType                 PEAP,TTLS
>>>          EAPTLS_CAPath           /etc/ssl/certs
>>>          EAPTLS_CertificateType  PEM
>>>          EAPTLS_CertificateFile  /etc/ssl/certs/%h-cert.pem
>>>          EAPTLS_PrivateKeyFile   /etc/ssl/private/%h-key.pem
>>>          EAPTLS_RandomFile       %D/random
>>>          EAPTLS_MaxFragmentSize  1024
>>>          EAPTLS_PEAPVersion      0
>>>          EAPTTLS_NoAckRequired
>>>          AutoMPPEKeys
>>>      </AuthBy>
>>> </Handler>
>>>
>>> The architecture is a radiusd configured to proxy to multiple backend
>>> radiusd processes. In the proxy radiusd log I see:
>>> Wed Feb 24 15:52:00 2010: INFO: AuthRADIUS: No reply after 3
>>> retransmissions to 127.0.0.1:9002 for host/Rock  (2)
>>>
>>> Now the strange thing is I only seem to be seeing this on one of our 2
>>> servers that are configured identically, except ... for os version :).
>>> The problem box is running Debian Etch and the other box is Debian
>>> Lenny. I will be forklifting the old box out tomorrow though...
>>>
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>>> Barry Ard                                   barry.ard at ualberta.ca
>>> Network Operations
>>> Academic Information and Communication Technologies (AICT)
>>> University of Alberta
>>> Edmonton, Alberta   Canada
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>> NB:
>>
>> Have you read the reference manual ("doc/ref.html")?
>> Have you searched the mailing list archive (
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> www.open.com.au/archives/radiator)?
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>> Have you had a quick look on Google (www.google.com)?
>> Have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
>> together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?
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