Maurizio Martinoli wrote: > > 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
the answer to this question is: probably (and quite certainly) nobody. why do you presume, there MUST be another machine? > another machine between the AP and the RADIUS, am i right? What kind of > machine should this be? aeehh... i would suggest a radius client. since, however, you want/have to use some intermediate machine (between the AP and the server), it has to be able to analyze passing packets and flows, in order to understand what has recently happened at the actual AP, in terms of connected and disconnected users, lines, etc.. this is way to complicated (and in the most general case impossible). that's why this is in the AP or ... nowhere. you need an AP with RADIUS in order to do what you (probably) want to do. RADIUS is a client-server protocol with an implicit user part, where the client asks for the authentication of a user at the server. the server answers yes or no, always referring to the subject of this particular user and servers own current (configured) situation. ok? basically, what you are asking here is something like "i want to go from paris to new york, but my 2-seat-cessna would never do the distance. what kind of vehicle should i put my cessna in, in order to make it cross the pacific?" the answer is just as above: "do not touch your cessna, use other plane type." ciao artur -- Artur Hecker artur[at]hecker.info - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
