Dear list, in a network with about 250+ clients (student hostel) we plan (or better: we would like) to set up a freeradius server, so that our wifi access points can use authentification based on existing user accounts. The access points are in the same network and the same subnet as all the normal clients. These normal clients get their ip address (and the other information) from a dhcp server that has a special behavior: If the computer that requests an ip address is known to the dhcp-server by his mac address this client receives a static ip address. If the client is unknown by his mac address he gets an ip address from "address-pool 1". This behavior is needed for other functionalities which are - related to this question - off-topic.
Now the wish with freeradius is: Access points can be used in the same subnet as the other lan-clients, but the clients that come in via WLAN should get an ip-address from "address-pool 2" (that is different to pool 1!). The question is (because I didn't really understand the documentation) if the build-in (experimental) dhcp-server of freeradius is just for clients that come in via a freeradius-controlled route or if the dhcp-server answers for the whole subnet, regardless how the new client joined the network. If the answer is "no": is there any other possibility to get the functionality I would like to have? Thank you in advance! Marten Pape - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html