Hi all, I'd like to use FREERADIUS as an authentification method for mobile phones, but I'm not sure A) if this is possible and B) how to configure as I'm a newbie. Please find following scenario: A mobile phone user would like to access my server behind the proxy/gateway by using a gprs connection of an official provider (e.g. vodafone). Currently the mobile phone builds up a gprs connection to the providers network and send a get.request to the server through the proxy/gateway. My proxy/gateway simply forwards the request to the server but can not authentificate it. Especially authentification gets important for the application called "MMS-Multimedia Messaging Service". In this case the client POSTs a message, but leaves the sender-header in the message empty (=asks the network to insert the proper information). Then my proxy/gateway can not insert the proper information, but the server which has to process this request requires the sender-header to perform billing actions for example. Now I was told that RADIUS is the solution. RADIUS is able to detect the actual sender information and delivers this information to the proxy/gateway which is then able to insert the missing value into the sender-header and everybody's happy ;) Someone was able to follow my thoughts? What's currently available? A proxy/gateway, mobile-phones, GPRS-connectivity and a RedHat machine for freeradius. What's needed? Some support in configurating freeradius. Comments are really welcome, Rgds. Marc
<Marc.Schlueter@comneon.com> wrote:
I'd like to use FREERADIUS as an authentification method for mobile phones, but I'm not sure
First, it's not "authentification", it's "authentication", without an "f".
Now I was told that RADIUS is the solution. RADIUS is able to detect the actual sender information and delivers this information to the proxy/gateway which is then able to insert the missing value into the sender-header and everybody's happy ;)
Someone was able to follow my thoughts?
Nope. RADIUS doesn't "detect sender information". I'm not sure you understand what RADIUS does. It's just authentication and accounting, for the most part. It doesn't appear to be involved at all in the scenario you described. Alan DeKok.
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