I agree with Philippe but I would say RADIUS *has already become* the core of any large wireless network.
Version 1.0 of our network was FreeRADIUS and we had to do some custom work to get it to work with Oracle. We are now using RADIATOR with a MSCHAP to LDAP EAP check to support native MS PEAP.
We are "almost" there from what I can see. Cisco can't advertise the WPA network and Microsoft doesn't like non-broadcast SSIDs. We need more voices telling MS to allow users to use non-broadcast network with the level of preference as broadcast SSIDs.
... Jonn Martell, UBC
Philippe Hanset wrote:
Martin,
RADIUS will become a very predominant piece of Wireless LANs as it is "required" by 802.1x (and 802.11i) as you mentioned. (you don't have to use RADIUS for 802.1x...) You might want to consider other cheap options like: freeradius (supports all kinds of EAP-types like TLS, TTLS etc...) Microsoft is big on EAP-PEAP but you might restrict yourself by using a RADIUS server from Microsoft for future deployments.
Philippe Hanset University of Tennessee
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Martin Jr., D. Michael wrote:
Is anyone out there using Microsoft Internet Authentication Service (IAS) for RADIUS authentication with their wireless access points? (We use Cisco 802.11b/g radios...Aironet 340s, 350s, 1100s)
IAS is free and included with Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and we have needed to get into using RADIUS authentication with our wireless implementation. Using PEAP, EAP, etc.. and 802.1x is not out of the question (at least long term) but I have many applications were MAC authentication is the only recourse (wireless printers, bridges, etc...).
Any advice (or help) would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
D. Michael Martin, Jr.
Network Administrator
University of Montevallo
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