topic Re: FlexAuth on ICX7150 in ICX Switches

FlexAuth on ICX7150

alexandr_potkin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:16:13 GMT

Hello!

We have many ICX7150 switches in our company and trying to enable flexauth.

But have an issue with this function:

After 1 hour client cannot authenticate on RADIUS server. When we enable auth it works fine:

Nov 7 20:14:54:N:MAC Authentication succeeded for [44db.d291.2200 186] on port 1/1/35
Nov 7 20:14:54:N:MACAUTH: Port 1/1/35 Mac 44db.d291.2200 - received AAA-ACCEPT
Nov 7 20:14:54:C:MACAUTH: RADIUS server 10.1.18.100 Accepted for 44db.d291.2200 with (DE:0 )
Nov 7 20:14:54:N:MACAUTH: Port 1/1/35 Mac 44db.d291.2200 Vlan 186 - Periodic reauth is initiated
Nov 7 20:14:48:I:DOT1X: Port 1/1/35 - mac e8cf.8335.cb4f, AuthControlledPortStatus change: authorized
Nov 7 20:14:48:N:DOT1X: Port 1/1/35 Mac e8cf.8335.cb4f - received AAA-ACCEPT
Nov 7 20:14:48:C:DOT1X: RADIUS server 10.1.18.100 Accepted for e8cf.8335.cb4f with (DE:1 )
Nov 7 20:14:48:N:DOT1X: Port 1/1/35 Mac e8cf.8335.cb4f Vlan 186 - Periodic reauth is initiated

TCPdump from radius-server:

20:14:54.792371 IP 10.2.4.207.1058 > radius.radius: RADIUS, Access-Request (1), id: 0x2a length: 145
20:14:54.804458 IP radius.radius > 10.2.4.207.1058: RADIUS, Access-Accept (2), id: 0x2a length: 32

After some time client cannot auth on radius. We see this in logbuf:

Nov 7 20:30:59:N:MAC Authentication succeeded for [44db.d291.2200 186] on port 1/1/35
Nov 7 20:30:59:N:MAC Authentication RADIUS timeout for [44db.d291.2200 186] on port 1/1/35
Nov 7 20:30:59:N:MACAUTH: Port 1/1/35 Mac 44db.d291.2200 - received AAA-TIMEOUT
Nov 7 20:29:59:N:MACAUTH: Port 1/1/35 Mac 44db.d291.2200 Vlan 186 - Periodic reauth is initiated
Nov 7 20:29:53:N:DOT1X: Port 1/1/35 Mac e8cf.8335.cb4f Vlan 186 - Periodic reauth is initiated

TCPdump from Radius looks very strange (pay attention on source port):

20:48:47.037902 IP 10.2.4.207.5 > radius.radius: RADIUS, Access-Request (1), id: 0x5a length: 142
20:48:47.048681 IP radius.radius > 10.2.4.207.5: RADIUS, Access-Challenge (11), id: 0x5a length: 64
20:48:47.049733 IP 10.2.4.207 > radius.: ICMP 10.2.4.207 udp port 5 unreachable, length 36

What we can do to fix this issue? Such a problem on SW: Version 08.0.95sT211

Re: FlexAuth on ICX7150

MariaC862 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:44:34 GMT

Hi!

Thank you for posting, could you please answer these questions:

Is this issue impacting multiple switches and/or multiple clients?

Could you please share the aaa config please.

Is the RADIUS server reachable when the issue is happening?

Is the RADIUS server in the same L2 domain or on another VLAN?

Please mention any troubleshooting steps you may have tried so far.

Thank you!

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Re: FlexAuth on ICX7150

alexandr_potkin — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:19:26 GMT

Hi!
- Is this issue impacting multiple switches and/or multiple clients?
Yes!
- AAA config:
authentication
auth-order mac-auth dot1x
auth-default-vlan xxx
restricted-vlan yyy
max-sw-age 30
max-hw-age 30
re-authentication
auth-fail-action restricted-vlan
dot1x enable
dot1x max-req 4
dot1x max-reauth-req 10
dot1x timeout tx-period 5
dot1x timeout quiet-period 0
mac-authentication enable
mac-authentication password-override 1 zzz
mac-authentication dot1x-override
aaa authentication dot1x default radius
aaa authentication login default local radius
aaa authentication login privilege-mode
aaa authorization exec default radius
aaa accounting dot1x default start-stop radius none
enable aaa console
radius-server host 10.1.18.100 auth-port 1812 acct-port 1813 default key 2 yyy dot1x port-only
radius-server host 10.1.18.104 ssl-auth-port 2083 authentication-only key 2 xxx
radius-server host 10.1.18.103 ssl-auth-port 2083 authentication-only key 2 xxx
radius-server host 10.1.18.102 ssl-auth-port 2083 authentication-only key 2 xxx
radius-server host 10.1.18.101 ssl-auth-port 2083 authentication-only key 2 xxx
radius-server timeout 4

- Is the RADIUS server reachable when the issue is happening?

Yes, RADIUS server is reachable
- Is the RADIUS server in the same L2 domain or on another VLAN?
RADIUS server in another VLAN

P.S. on SW version 09.0.10kT211 FlexAuth works fine with this config, but can't login using AD username (only local user).

Re: FlexAuth on ICX7150

alexandr_potkin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:35:24 GMT

Do You have any ideas?

Re: FlexAuth on ICX7150

alexandr_potkin — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:14:24 GMT

Do you have any ideas?