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 address in 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?
Run the server in debugging mode: radiusd -x -x -x to see what the server is doing.
Try using the 'radtest' utility that comes with FreeRADIUS.
Make sure radius is listening on the same ports you are sending to. A common problem is for one side to be using 1645/1646 and the other side to be using 1812/1813.
( Historically, radius used 1645/1646, but then was found to be in conflict on the assigned ports, and moved to 18
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. Right now, 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?
Yes. Depending on the AP, the MAC addresses are sent as the User-Name.
The best thing to do, IMHO is to get one of the AP's pointed at the FR server, and run radius in debug mode so that you can see what the AP is sending to the Radius server. From there, you should be able to figure out what entries you'll need to add in the 'users' file to authenticate the users.
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