Kind of a strange question:
I have two RADIUS servers, and two different user groups defined - one per RADIUS server.
I'm wondering if there's a way to prioritize authenticating against one RADIUS server over the other.
So, we have a user connect via Forticlient, and authenticate against RADIUS Server1, which puts him/her in Group1. If Server1 is down, then it would authenticate against the Server2 and put the user in a differnt group.
I thought I could achieve the desired result via the policies - put the user group from Server1 in a policy above a policy that refers to the user group from Server2, but it seems like authentication is happening round-robin across the RADIUS servers, so it's impossible to predict which server will authenticate.
Any ideas how to prefer one over the other?
So I have some confusion about the group attribute. Am I adding the attribute that is the same as the one created on the fortigate or the one that matches the AD group on the NPS?
I had help figuring this out. It seems the radius timeout has to be set greater than 5 seconds. It is set to 150 and everything works. Thank you for your assistance.
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