[MLB-WIRELESS] RADIUS

[evilbunny]

Hello Jeremy,

I think the implication here was about radius in some of the
wireless devices for MAC auth...

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Tuesday, July 30, 2002, 7:10:12 PM, you wrote:

JL> On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:29:22AM +0200, Joris wrote:
>> > Can someone give me a breif explanation of what a radius server is and some things I should know about installing one on my home lan that has wired and wireless connections.  Also recommedations
>> for a radius package for freebsd would also be great.
>> Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RFC 2138)
>> 
>> Basicly a server to wich you can authenticate after logging in into the
>> network. Usually succesfull authentication allows for more network access ;)

JL> Hmmm I thought it more or less does the authentication for the dialup
JL> users.  Typically used with a NAS box, although there is a PAM module
JL> and also portslave which allows you to use a *nix box to handle dialups
JL> in the same way as a NAS would.

JL> Probably not very useful for a home network even if you do dialin.
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