Kudos to the FreeRADIUS team! I have been using FreeRADIUS for about a year now, since I built a WLAN for an Apartment building in South Central Los Angeles utilizing FreeRADIUS/EAP-TLS for auth [for WInXP clients :)] and FreeS/WAN for encryption. Now I utilize it at home with two Linksys wireless routers: the WRT51AB and the WRT54G. I had only the WRT51AB talking to FreeRADIUS on a slackware box using EAP-TLS with dynamic wep re-keying set to 250 sec (beautiful i might add that mppe keys were good for something), but I found out today that the WRT54G (802.11g) wl router just had a firmware upgrade that utilizes WPA with no less that AES encryption. I had to see if it was true. I went to compusa and bought the router for $110. (holy s**t), and a WPC54G wireless card because they had new drivers for that too. (This card cost $70 - not quite cheap.) So for $200 I had in my hand an AES-enabled industrial strength wireless kit. I set it up as the default router and chained it to the existing WRT51AB, which I configured as a switch only (interesting that the ports auto-sense MDI/MDI-X....) using a straight through cable. I set the new wl-g router to point to the radius server and set WPA-RADIUS with AES encryption (XP client with latest drivers) on the router and the laptops wl-g nic. It fired up and...worked! I didn't believe it but I fired up Ethereal to see:
http://mikro-net.com/eth/eth/ - this shows the packets through ethereal None of this was possible, of course without FreeRADIUS. Anyway I know this was lengthy and maybe not the right forum, but I just wanted to thank the FreeRADIUS developers for providing a FREE radius server that despite its MAJOR_VERSION=0 I have dared to use in production enviroments with great success..... THANK YOU! <----------------------------------------------------> mikro network solutions * http://www.mikro-net.com - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
