How to configure FreeRadius so that clients don't have to be changed?

[Paul Bartell]

I take it that you mean, is it possible to make it transparent to the
user, in which, the answer is yes. Depending on your access points,
you may be able to do MAC address authentication, which anyone will
tell you is insanely insecure, but it prevents people from driving up
and accessing your network (unless they are technically inclined to
use a packet capturing program and spoof a mac address). So insecure,
yes. But practical so long as you dont have a bunch of crackers living
around wherever you are setting up authentication. Mac OSX as well as
many Linux distros have 802.1x authentication/WPA enterprise built in,
so it is not much of a problem. Im not sure about the current state of
windows in this department (havent used it in a while... could someone
chime in)

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:37 PM, DaSilva
<Edwinem_von_Forresterra at web.de> wrote:
>
>
> Alan DeKok-4 wrote:
>>
>> DaSilva wrote:
>>> I want to set up a FreeRadius server for WLAN authentification without
>>> the
>>> need to change anything on client PCs (because we have so much clients
>>> that
>>> this would be to much work).
>>> Is that possible?
>>
>>   No.
>>
>>   It's like asking "how do I make the PC be a web server... but I don't
>> want to install a web server".
>>
>>   You have to configure WLAN authentication on the clients in order for
>> WLAN authentication to work.
>>
>>   Alan DeKok.
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>
> And is it possible to do this automatically via remote or something else?
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