It sounds like you need what some people call a captive portal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal
The only radius client you need is the box running the captive portal software. The Wikipedia page lists a few products that run under Windows, Linux, or are meant to turn PCs into web-controlled appliances. I'll add another one: m0n0wall (http://www.m0n0.ch/wall). Reimer, Mark wrote: > Hi folks, > > Here's the situation, sorry for the long post. > > There are a number of students using wireless in our dorms, about 350 of > them. This past year, I had a little Linux router (read old PC) that > could block by MAC address, and that was what I used to allow access to > the internet. > > Now we want to have some sort of username/password. The students all get > accounts on our Windows 2003 domain, mostly for checking their email > which are on our servers. We would like to use these accounts for > authentication from their wireless connections. > > If I read the docs correctly, Windows 2003 standard will allow for 50 > Radius clients. I don't have any Windows 2003 Enterprise or DataCenter > licenses (which allow unlimited Radius clients), and getting an > Enterprise or Data Center license is out of the question. > > I don't have any managed switches, and basically no routers (except for > the little one mentioned above, and our firewall). The current wireless > access points are a hodge podge of makes, most of which can talk with a > radius server, but I think I do have one or two that can not. > > I'm not familiar with Linux, but I can learn it if that will solve my > problem. > > Any other ideas I might be missing? > > Thanks. > > Mark > > > -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
