FreeRadius to authenticate DHCP Requests with Option82

[Johan Meiring]

On 2012/02/22 01:10 PM, Alan DeKok wrote:
>
>    Yes.
>
>    If you use FreeRADIUS for both RADIUS and DHCP, you can track user
> status in a database.  When you receive a RADIUS packet, update the
> database.  When you receive a DHCP packet, query the database.
>
>    Traditional DHCP servers (i.e. ISC) make this hard.  They don't talk
> to databases.  They're firmly stuck in 1980's technology.
>


Another option which we use very successfully is a Mikrotik DHCP server.
It can talk to Freeradius.

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/DHCP_Server

It works well.

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Johan Meiring
Cape PC Services CC
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