Description | This article describes how to address the CoA behavior where FortiSwitch managed via Fortilink ignores RADIUS Disconnect-Request and drops it silently without generating any logs. |
Scope | FortiNAC, FortiSwitch managed via FortiLink. |
Solution |
RADIUS accounting must be configured on FortiGate and radius-acct service must be enabled on FortiGate and FortiSwitch interface communicating with FortiNAC otherwise the FortiSwitch will not respond to Disconnect-Request packets sent by FortiNAC.
FortiGate Configuration:
config user radius edit 1 set status enable set server <FortiNAC-IP> set secret XXX set port 1813 next
Regarding FortiSwitch configuration, either enable radius-acct service directly on the switch (This can be done by accessing the FortiSwitch GUI and enabling radius-acct service on the Fortilink interface) or append radius-acct to the switch controller (This will push the configuration to all the switches managed via FortiLink).
config switch-controller security-policy local-access edit default end |
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