On Thu, 2018-11-15 at 10:36 +0000, Andreu Gallofré wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> We are trying to use NetworkManager to handle connections on a wired
> network with authentication via 802.1X and a special configuration
> but we can't manage to make it work.
>  
> All ports of the switches where the clients are connecting are
> configured in general mode, allowing traffic from different vlans,
> and also untagged traffic.
>  
> If we use a Windows host on that port, everything works perfectly,
> the authentication to the radius server works fine and the machine
> receive the traffic as expected.
> The problem is that when connecting a linux to the network the
> machine authenticates correctly and radius assign the vlan to the
> port, then the machine gets the traffic tagged with the vlan, but
> Network Manager does not seem to pick it up and bring up a vlan sub-
> interface to handle that traffic. If we bring it up manually using
> ifup eth0.vlan_number, it works
>  
> We assume that the Switch sends the same traffic to both the Windows
> and the Linux, but the network stack is managing it differently. Is
> there any configuration that we are missing on the network manager to
> make it work? Is this kind of setup supported?


Hi,

I am not familiar with the setup you are describing here, but I suspect
it's the same as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129811 ,
isn't it?


best,
Thomas

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