AW: 802.1x troubles...

[Karl Rothenhofer]

Hello Larry,

having a very similar objective like you, myself and a couple of friends
encountered a very similar problem like the one you described. Though dhcpd
was running, the WIN XP client could not get an IP-address and hence could
not communicate. When we assigned a fixed IP address, communication was
possible or alternatively when we restarted dhcpd in our accesspoint in that
given situation automatic assignment of the IP-address and hence
communication became also possible. This lead to the assumption, that dhcpd
was initialised at the wrong point in time, when the wlan Interface was not
yet ready. Conseuqently we changed the initialisation sequence putting dhcpd
initialisation at a very late point in initialisation time and our problem
was solved. Will yours be also solved by doing so? In case you need
additional information please let me know.

Karl



> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: hostap-bounces+karl.rothenhoefer=t-online.de at shmoo.com
> [mailto:hostap-bounces+karl.rothenhoefer=t-online.de at shmoo.com]Im
> Auftrag von Larry LeBlanc
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. August 2004 00:43
> An: hostap at shmoo.com
> Betreff: 802.1x troubles...
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm (eventually) trying to setup a full-blown 802.11i AP
> using freeRADIUS but I thought I would take baby steps and
> see if I could get 802.1x working with the minimal EAP server
> built-in to hostapd. From what I can see in the hostapd logs
> things seem to work OK - I see messages indicating that the
> port is authorized and authenticated, i.e.:
>
> wlan0: STA <my client MAC> IEEE 802.1X: authorizing port
> wlan0: STA <my client MAC> IEEE 802.1X: authenticated
>
> But my (WinXP) client doesn't seem to understand that it is
> authenticated. My DHCP queries fail and if I force another
> query Windows launches into the authentication process again.
> So it seems Windows does not understand the link is up.
>
> I am using hostapd-0.2.4 with hostap-driver-0.2.4. In
> hostapd.conf I have set the following:
>
> ieee8021x=1
> minimal_eap=1
> wep_key_len_broadcast=13
> wep_key_len_unicast=13
> wep_rekey_period=0 # for now I'd just like to get one!
> eapol_key_index_workaround=0 # since I'm setting unicast keys
>
> I've attached the output from "hostapd -ddd". If anyone has
> any hints, I'd love to hear them. If you need me to capture
> and post any additional data, let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry
>
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