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
>  
>  
> 


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