I have installed configured and tested free radius, seems to work great. My question is really whether or not I have chosen an appropriate application for Free Radius. (I hope this is not an in-appropriate post)
What I am trying to accomplish: Have a Wireless Access Point at a remote location (i.e. downtown Denver). When some one goes to associate w/ the AP they are required to enter a username and password. The trick is that I don't want a proxy server at the remote location. I'm trying to accomplish this with a Radius server and AP's that are 802.1X compliant, but I'm not sure if this is the appropriate way to accomplish this. For some reason I am under the impression that some AP's have an HTML splash screen to enter user name and password via a radius server. The only AP I have had to test is a dwl900AP+ trying to authenticate a WinXP box, and it certainly does not come up with an HTML splash screen (After doing some reading it almost sounds like you have to have proprietary client software on every computer that wants to authenticate???). What AP's (if any) have this functionality? Am I completely off base w/ my application of this Radius Server? Cheers, Matt ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
