802.1X MDA Packet Format Question

bdowney · ‎03-04-2008

When a phone is on the voice vlan packet destined for it should have a 802.1q tag with a VLAN ID of the voice vlan.

Does the EAP packet (for the phone) have an 802.1q vlan header when using 802.1X MDA? What about re-authentication packets?

The RFC says VLAN tagging is not supported but it was not written with MDA in mind.

ebreniz · ‎03-10-2008

You can add MAC address on ACS for MAB with asterix *. ---> This immediately allows you to get the IP-phones added to the

voice-VLAN. guess its not possible, that a "2-VLAN-trunk" between the ATA186 and the switch is getting build up. Exactly for all those devices MDA has been developed.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3750/software/release/12.2_35_se/configuration/guide/sw8021x.html#wp1062454

jafrazie · ‎03-10-2008

EAPOL frames are not tagged. It wouldn't matter what vlan a device thinks it should be on. If the switch has not authenticated it, it wouldn't know it's a phone (yet) anyway.

EAPOL is sent to the specific MAC address of the device for ports enabled for MDA. This includes re-auth frames.