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Aspirant

Jun 22, 2017

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Switch blocks EAPol packets despite EAPol Flood

Hi, I have a GS110TP without any special config connected to a managed Extreme Switch. I want to authenticate the clients behind the Netgear switch on the access port of the Extreme switch so I e...

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Steffi5
Jun 28, 2017
JohnC_V

Thank you for the reply. Yes I know I set up Extreme Access Control based on a free radius Server.
I tested again yesterday after a reboot of the switch eapol flooding is now working. I thought just applying the new config would do the trick.

JohnC_V

NETGEAR Moderator

Jun 28, 2017

Steffi5,

802.1X-based authentication requires a RADIUS server for it to work on your network. An external RADIUS server performs the authentication. When a visitor is successfully authenticated, traffic is automatically assigned to the guest VLAN.

Please check this article.

Regards,

Steffi5

Aspirant

Jun 28, 2017

JohnC_V

Thank you for the reply. Yes I know I set up Extreme Access Control based on a free radius Server.

I tested again yesterday after a reboot of the switch eapol flooding is now working. I thought just applying the new config would do the trick.