> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Yes, the NASs are wireless access points on steroids, and they get >> bandwidth-throttling information from RADIUS along with >> Accepts/Rejects. > > Do you perhaps now the vendor? > Is bandwidth throttling the only configuration they get via radius?
The vendors are SmartBridges and MikroTik. Yes, bw throttling is the only info they get from RADIUS (this is a function of what service level the customer purchased). > By configuring a username and password in the accesspoint for example. > That way the NAS sends an access-request with the username and password to > the radius server. > The radius server can then 1) uniquely identify the accesspoints, 2) > reject > unknown accesspoints, 3) give the accesspoint the configuration it needs Wellll....i don't think these APs work like that. They're more like relays than anything else - the customer premises equipment (a wireless network card of varying types) tries to associate with the AP (running in open, non-encrypted mode and broadcasting an SSID). The AP gathers the MAC address of the cust. prem. device that's trying to associate with it and passes that information to RADIUS, using the two different methodologies I mentioned previously. If it gets a Reject, the customer device doesn't get to associate. If it gets an Accept, then it looks for bandwidth limits from RADIUS and implements them after it allows the device to associate. > That's what radius is for :) I _know_! Didn't believe it would be this much trouble. > Open source has a cost also. > And actively participating in the open source project you're using might > help introcude features you need. I hear you. Don't know enough to really be of much assistance to anyone, and conveniently got into a flame was with the moderator right off the bat and that's never good... > Yeah... it's not easy of course and why would someone that built something > great be willing to tell you how he did it for free? > I'd pay somebody to solve this problem for me. > -- > Regards, > > Thor Spruyt > E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > W: www.thor-spruyt.com > M: +32 (0)475 67 22 65 > Bestel nu uw exemplaar van Operationele verkoop (Walter Spruyt - > Liesbeth Huysmans) via www.salesguide.be Ontdek de Telenet Hotspot > service op www.telenet.be/hotspots > > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See > http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
