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baz
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Is it possible to require wired authentication without a managed switch?
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December 07, 2021, 05:26:35 am »
I would like to force anyone that plugs in to my "dumb" wired switch to be forced to authenticate through the configured FreeRADIUS server. I have FreeRADIUS running in OPNSense to authenticate WiFi, but the AP is basically a smart switch configured to look for the RADIUS server and authenticate through WPA-Enterprise 802.1x. Is it possible to do the same natively through OPNSense without a smart switch? All the pieces seem to be there already.
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Patrick M. Hausen
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Re: Is it possible to require wired authentication without a managed switch?
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December 07, 2021, 07:49:50 am »
Short answer: no.
Longer answer: how should anything on the firewall prevent two devices on your dumb switch from talking to each other? The point of 802.1x is to prevent
layer 2 network access
completely. That must be done by the switch.
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