656 CHAPTER B: RADIUS SERVER AND RADIUS CLIENT SETUP
The following example shows the User name HOMER with the correct Return list
Attributes inserted,
The VLANs and QoS profiles must also be created on the 3Com Switch 5500.
Configuring FreeRADIUS 3Com has successfully installed and tested FreeRADIUS running on Solaris 2.6 and
RedHat Linux servers in networks with the Switch 5500 deployed.
Download FreeRADIUS source files from
http://www.freeradius.org and install
the application following the instructions from the website. The following
instructions assume that you have installed a standard version of FreeRADIUS.
To configure FreeRADIUS as a RADIUS server for networks with the Switch 5500,
follow these steps:
1 Add each Switch 5500 as a RADIUS client to the FreeRADIUS server
a Locate the existing file
clients.conf in /usr/local/etc/raddb
b Add an entry in clients.conf for the Switch 5500 you wish to administer. For
example:
client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx {
secret = a-shared-secret
shortname = a-short-name
}
Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the 3Com Switch 5500.
