MAC OS-X and authentication via ACS 5.2

rhub · ‎04-02-2012

My customer has a large installed base of MACs, all connected via controller-based (5508) WLAN. He wants to grant access to the network

based on the device's mac addresses and move the WLAN-clients to a specific VLAN.

I added all devices with their mac addresses to the ACS internal identity store for hosts.

According to the following message the client sends the user-login credentials (chegger) within the RADIUS-request instead of the clients mac address and of course it has to fail.

After many configuration changes, I ended up always with the same result.

Has anybody made the same experiences with MACs ? Can somebody give me a hint ?

I really appreciate very much any reply.

Best regards

Roman

The ACS-configuration is documented in the attachment

andrewswanson · ‎04-03-2012

hello - check the wlan setup of the ssid (is mac filtering enabled?) - see the following doc for mac authentication on a WLC

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_configuration_example09186a008084f13b.shtml#c3

hth

andy

rhub · ‎04-03-2012

hi andy, many thanks for your post. i will check with customer within the next 2 weeks and let you know about the results.

regards

roman