I know that RADIUS is an authentication mechanism, what i don't understand is that if my AP does not support RADIUS (so it works just as a hub) who sends the RADIUS queries to the RADIUS server? There must be another machine between the AP and the RADIUS, am i right? What kind of machine should this be?
> > 25-Nov-02 at 10:57, Maurizio Martinoli > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > AP is the access point, and i am talking about wireless. > > What i don't understand is who communicates from one side > with the AP > > and the other with the RADIUS server > > How do you do authentication now? > > I think you need to read up on authentication in general. > Radius is an authentication protocol. There are lots of > questions to the list about EAP/TLS and wireless authentication. > > Basically, your access point has to support authentication > via Radius. Freeradius is a daemon that will check > user/password combinations via existing mechanisms (LDAP, > SQL, PAM) or via it's own users file. > > - If you access point doesn't support Radius, then what > authentication does it use? > - Can you make this authentication mechanism query a Radius server? > > -- > |-Simon White, Internet Services Manager, Certified Check Point CCSA. > |-MTDS Internet, Security, Anti-Virus, Linux and Hosting Solutions. > |-MTDS 14, rue du 16 novembre, Agdal, Rabat, Morocco. -MTDS tel > |+212.3.767.4861 - fax +212.3.767.4863 > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See > http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
