Re: Wireless 802.1x with MAB as fallback and FreeRadius

Alan DeKok via Freeradius-Users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freeradius.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jul 17, 2025, at 12:56 PM, Rodrigo Antunes via Freeradius-Users <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think you misunderstood something in the way. 

  I understood only what you posted.  if your comments are unclear, there isn't much I can do about that.

> In an earlier email I said I understood what you said that it is not possible to authenticate IoT devices that dont support 802.1x in a 802.1x SSID. There is no fallback like there is in wired.
> 
> So I asked what is the best practice to properly solve the issue where I need to authenticate IoT devices.

  The question wasn't that, but sure...

> A separate SSID specificaly for them right? In this new SSID I could use macauth, but macauth only is insecure because mac can be spoofed.

  A separate SSID would work.  And yes, MAC auth doesn't add a lot of security, because it can be spoofed.

> An earlier user said something about Cisco IPSK, does someone have an idea how I can configure this in the virtual cisco wireless controller together with freeradius?

  There's a DPSK module in FreeRADIUS.  It has documentation, and is known to work with IPSK.

  Alan DeKok.

-
List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.