We are trying to authenticate a wireless client using EAP-TLS on a Meraki AP against a FortiAuthenticator (with RADIUS).
The EAP-TLS is successful but the wireless client doesn´t receive a DHCP IP address, nor does it have network access. However, a wired EAP-TLS (computer authentication) request from the same client works flawlessly.
Parts of the debug log show:
(2794) facauth: ===>NAS IP:192.168.100.96
(2794) facauth: ===>Username:host/W10CLIENT.company.local
(2794) facauth: ===>Timestamp:1707907999.157486, age:1ms
(2794) facauth: Comparing client IP 192.168.100.96 with authclient Meraki-AP1 (192.168.100.96, 1 IPs)
(2794) facauth: ------> matched!
(2794) facauth: Found authclient from preloaded authclients list for 192.168.100.96: Meraki-AP1 (192.168.100.96)
(2794) facauth: authclient_id:2 auth_type:'eap-tls'
(2794) facauth: Found authpolicy 'EAPTLS' for client '192.168.100.96'
<SNIP>
(2794) facauth: Updated auth log 'host/W10CLIENT.company.local' for attempt from 192.168.100.96: 802.1x authentication successful
(2794) facauth: User-Name: host/W10CLIENT.company.local (from request)
<SNIP>
(2794) Sent Access-Accept Id 23 from 192.168.0.100:1645 to 192.168.100.96:49544 length 220
(2794) MS-MPPE-Recv-Key = <<< secret >>>
(2794) MS-MPPE-Send-Key = <<< secret >>>
(2794) EAP-Message = 0x031b0004
(2794) Message-Authenticator = 0x00000000000000000000000000000000
(2794) User-Name = "host/W10CLIENT.company.local"
(2794) Framed-MTU += 994
(2794) Tunnel-Type += VLAN
(2794) Tunnel-Medium-Type += IEEE-802
(2794) Tunnel-Private-Group-Id += "500"
(2794) Finished request
Has anyone else experienced this issue?
Solved! Go to Solution.
After multiple support calls with Fortinet and Meraki in the same call, the Meraki engineer concluded that this wasn´t an authentication issue... she asked us to disable 802.11r on the SSID and after that, RADIUS authentication worked instantly!
Also, it worked with the default Framed-MTU of 994 bytes communicated by the FortiAuthenticator in the Access-Accept.
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