Extreme Wireless C35 and MAC Authentication using Server 2016 Network Policy Server

[robertmare]

I have exhausted all documentation and suggestions for configuring Microsoft RADIUS to MAC Authenticate to our Private SSID.  We are using C35 controllers and Server 2016, has anyone been able to get this to work?  If so, what instructions/guides were followed? 

I appreciate any suggestions or recommendations!

Thank you.

[robertmare]

I will try.  Thank you for the reply!

[Brian_Anderson1 · Accepted solution]

If your ssid is set to bridge at ap and you aren’t using AP-Aware, then the port being set to .1x may affect your authentication.  

However, if your ssid is set to 802.1x and your domain computer has 802.1x turned on, then this protocol will take precedence and will try to authenticate with the username and password of either the computer or user, depending on how the computer is configured and where in the login process the computer is in.  

I’d start with unchecking the requirement on the client to check for certificate and go from troubleshooting from there.  

[robertmare]

It is in fact a domain computer.  I apologize, however haven’t used NPS/RADIUS in quite sometime so unsure as to what you mean by using .1x?  The port for the connection policy is Wireless 802.11x….but doubt thats what is meant here?

[Brian_Anderson1]

What kind of device are you trying to authenticate? If a domain computer, why not use .1x?