FOR MAC based auth only - Make sure the IP address of you AP's are in the clients.conf - edit the "users" file and add the MAC address of the clients as the user name. Thepassword is the "key" you set on your AP's.
Ken Connell Intermediate Network Engineer Computer & Communication Services Ryerson University 350 Victoria St RM AB50 Toronto, Ont M5B 2K3 416-979-5000 x6709 ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Shanafelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 4:28 pm Subject: Can this be done & first time user > Hello everyone, > > I've never used FreeRadius before. I think I successfully > installed it > on RedHat and it seems to start up OK. I added my windows XP IP > addressin the clients file along with a key; added the same IP > address, short > name, and "portslave" as the type; and uncommented out the 3 lines in > the radiusd.conf file for password, shadow, and group. > > I'm using a utility on my XP box called NTRadPing Test Utility to > see if > the radius server responds. So far, I'm not getting any > responses, just > the "no response from server" error. > > This is my first time messing with a RADIUS server. Does anyone > see a > step that I missed? > > Also, the reason I'm doing this is to build a list of MAC > addresses that > are allowed to associate with our several wireless access points. > Rightnow, each one has a static list of valid MAC addresses, and > when we get > a new employee, we have to go to each one and enter the MAC address. > From what I read, a RADIUS server can be set up so that we can > centralize this list. Is this a correct assumption? > > Thanks very much, > Mike > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See > http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
