Disable EAP Authentication for Web-Auth on WLC

Hello Everyone
We Use a Special Radius Server who is implemented according to RFC 2865. But now we get Errors that the Radius Server cant handle the Attribut Typ 80.
For that i now this Attribut has to do with EAP Authentication, which is a newer addition according to RFC 2869.
How can i configure the WLC to disable EAP Authentication?
Thank you in advance
Chris Kaiser

EAP authentication is defined on the SSID... So if your using radius to authenticate WebAuth users, then you need to make sure that you use open authentication with WebAuth. Don't specify any layer 2 encryption methods and the WLC will not send EAP request to the radius server.
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