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zeref
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July 18, 2026
Question

Fortiswitch 7.6.6 802.1x Broken?

  • July 18, 2026
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I am setting up 802.1x with clearpass and most of my switch are running 7.6.1 or lower and are working fine. I upgraded 2 switches this morning to 7.6.6 and now they absolutely refuse to work if I have the 802.1x security policy on the ports. Worked fine on 7.6.1. Not even DHCP is getting passed to the native vlan.

I've spend the majority of my day trying to find a way to work around this today and am at the end of my chain.

I can't even roll back to 7.6.1 because I don't have switch support to download.

I ran a sniffer on the fortigate and the switch doesn't send a single RADIUS packet when a port comes up.

Anyone have any suggestions?

    3 replies

    Stephen_G
    Staff & Editor
    Staff & Editor
    July 22, 2026

    Hi zeref,

     

    Thank you for using our Community forums. We will look to get you an answer or help.

    Stephen_G - Fortinet Community Team
    Stephen_G
    Staff & Editor
    Staff & Editor
    July 24, 2026

    Hi zeref,

    We are still trying to get you an answer or help.

    In the meantime, if anyone else has any ideas, feel free to share.

     

    Stephen_G - Fortinet Community Team
    adambomb1219
    SuperUser
    SuperUser
    July 24, 2026

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