newexperimental on radius

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Mon Apr 14 16:50:07 CEST 2008


Si St wrote:
> Q: Could anybody tell me what kind of password is to be set on the router configuration to enable RADIUS setup?

 See the router documentation.

> The router states that the password has to correspond with the password in the radius, but which one and how?
> It is boxed as "RADIUS-Server Shared Secret"
> What file does it correspond with? The secret in clients.conf?

  Yes.

> And what password is the YaST asking for when configuring the networkcard with WPA-EAP? The same password or another?
> In YaST it is asked for 1)Identity, 2)Password, 3)Client-Zertifikat and 4)Server-Zertifikat
> 
> It is number 1 and 2 I am wondering about

  They are the users's name and password.

> I have tried to read carefully about RADIUS in the documentation in SuSE and on the web.
> I have also tried out to run the CA.pl and CA.all as to certificates for web and radius EAP-TLS. It is so far just practice and tryouts for me now.
> I have several machines PCs at home with SuSE_10.0,SuSE_Linux_Enterprise_Desktop_SP1,WinXP and WinVista. I would like to try out Radius for Internet connections.
> Q: Is it difficult to make EAP-TLS work with windows, and should I use EAP-TTLS instead or PEAP?

  You should use PEAP on Windows.

  Alan DeKok.



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