<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 255);">Sorry about the multiple questions.</span><br style="color: rgb(64, 64, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(64, 64, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 255);">But, I really didnt get what tool to use for the following question :(</span><br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">4. Are they good for scalability testing or should I look out for other open source wpa supplicants/NASs?</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 191);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);">I will be grateful if you can answer this again for me please. Thanks again for reading my message.</span><br><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);">Also, in question #2, what processes are you referring to?
please shed some light on this. sorry again.</span><br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">2. When you say "Just run 5-6 processes at the same time.", can one interface be used to send out multiple simultaneous wpa supplicant requests? If yes, how many wpa client sessions can i generate on 1 interface?</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br>Regards,<br>RC.<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> FreeRadius users mailing list <freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, March 2, 2010 5:03:20 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Can a
wpa_supplicant talk to a Free Radius server without a NAS in between?<br></font><br>R C wrote:<br>> Here is my requirement in more detail:<br><br> It was pretty clear what you wanted to do.<br><br>> 1. Considering the limitation of the resources, I was thinking about how<br>> i can get so many (100,000) wpa supplicant sessions up and running at<br>> the same time. Do you have any input on this?<br><br> Doing 100K simultaneous sessions is pointless. Your CPU will max out<br>LONG before that. Read raddb/certs/README, the "performance" section.<br><br>> 2. When you say "Just run 5-6 processes at the same time.", can one<br>> interface be used to send out multiple simultaneous wpa supplicant<br>> requests? If yes, how many wpa client sessions can i generate on 1<br>> interface?<br><br> Go back and read my message again. I didn't say run "wpa supplicant"<br>requests.<br><br>> 3. Can you please
tell me how good WPA supplicant and Hostapd fit this<br>> test with FreeRadius Server?<br><br> I have no idea what that means.<br><br>> 4. Are they good for scalability testing or should I look out for other<br>> open source wpa supplicants/NASs?<br><br> I already told you which tool to use. Why ask again?<br><br>> 5. Do you know of any other supplicants and AP that might do the work<br>> for me or are known to do a better job in scalability tests like this?<br><br> Asking the same question twice in a row. Why?<br><br> Alan DeKok.<br>-<br>List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See <a href="http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html" target="_blank">http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html</a><br></div></div>
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