NAS ID in radius request

Alexs20
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NAS ID in radius request

Hi all,

 

My question is about how can I provide a custom NAS ID value in a Radius requests originated by SM switch?

I am comparing the Access Policy configuration forms between the Wireless and Switch and i see that I can do that for the Wireless mode (in advanced section) but I do not see anything similar for the Switch.

 

Please advice.

Thanks.

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alemabrahao
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I believe that in this case you will only be able to use the Called-Station-Id.

RADIUS Attributes

When an access policy is configured with RADIUS server, authentication is performed using PAP. The following attributes are present in the Access-Request messages sent from MS switch to the RADIUS server.

  • User-Name
  • NAS-IP-Address
  • Calling-Station-Id: Contains the MAC address of the end user machine (supplicant) (all caps, octets separated by hyphens, example: "AA-BB-CC-DD-EE-FF").
  • Called-Station-Id: Contains the MAC address of the Meraki MS switch (all caps, octets separated by hyphens).

Note: MS390 has an exception, it will send MACID of the switch port in the Called-Station-Id AVP.

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alemabrahao
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More details here.

 

https://documentation.meraki.com/MS/Access_Control/MS_Switch_Access_Policies_(802.1X)

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RaphaelL
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Sadly that is not possible.

You can't customize any of that for switches.

 

Alexs20
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Ok, then another question.

I see that MS switch also sending a "Meraki-Device-Name" attribute that contains the switch's name that I can change.

Theoretically I can use this field to pass my custom data to the radius... but, I do not see any documentation that directly says that MS switch will always send the "Meraki-Device-Name" attribute. That means that I cannot use undocumented field...
Is anyone aware about where can I find the documentation about this attribute?

Thanks

 

alemabrahao
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@Alexs20  all attributes available are here.

 

https://documentation.meraki.com/MS/Access_Control/MS_Switch_Access_Policies_(802.1X

 

If you are not able to find this information here it's probably not supported.

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