Can a wpa_supplicant talk to a Free Radius server without a NAS in between?
Hi, My requirement is to test scalability of my Server software that hosts Free Radius Server. I want to see how many wpa supplicant requests it can handle via EAP-TLS. 1. Can a wpa_supplicant talk to a Free Radius server without a NAS in between? I just want to see how many requests my Free Radius server can handle simultaneously. But, is it even possible for the WPA supplicant to talk to the Free radius server without the NAS in between them? 2. Is there a free wpa supplicant (peer) that generates multiple separate sessions at the same time? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, rchinnapu. -- This e-mail and any of its attachments may contain proprietary information, which is privileged, confidential or subject to copyright belonging to Grid Net, Inc. This e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or action taken in relation to the contents of this e-mail is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete.
rchinnapu wrote:
My requirement is to test scalability of my Server software that hosts Free Radius Server. I want to see how many wpa supplicant requests it can handle via EAP-TLS.
1. Can a wpa_supplicant talk to a Free Radius server without a NAS in between? I just want to see how many requests my Free Radius server can handle simultaneously. But, is it even possible for the WPA supplicant to talk to the Free radius server without the NAS in between them?
See eapol_test. It's included with wpa_supplicant. http://deployingradius.com/ for complete instructions on building && using it with EAP.
2. Is there a free wpa supplicant (peer) that generates multiple separate sessions at the same time?
No. Just run 5-6 processes at the same time. Alan DeKok.
Hi, I ran eapol_test with reauthentication = 100. It went through fine. Thanks for that. 1. But, since these reauthentications are serial and not parallel, and even if i run 5-6 eapol_test processes at the same time, there will be only 5-6 parallel sessions at any given time. 2. Since there are no free wpa supplicants that can generate multiple separate sessions at the same time, do you know of any paid tools (non-open source) that might generate about a 100,000 client requests? At this point, i still understand that the Free radius server cant handle those many requests even if there was a way to generate them. I am just asking this question hoping some one would have had a similar requirement. Thanks, RC. ________________________________ From: Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> To: FreeRadius users mailing list <freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org> Sent: Tue, March 2, 2010 12:25:42 AM Subject: Re: Can a wpa_supplicant talk to a Free Radius server without a NAS in between? rchinnapu wrote:
My requirement is to test scalability of my Server software that hosts Free Radius Server. I want to see how many wpa supplicant requests it can handle via EAP-TLS.
1. Can a wpa_supplicant talk to a Free Radius server without a NAS in between? I just want to see how many requests my Free Radius server can handle simultaneously. But, is it even possible for the WPA supplicant to talk to the Free radius server without the NAS in between them?
See eapol_test. It's included with wpa_supplicant. http://deployingradius.com/ for complete instructions on building && using it with EAP.
2. Is there a free wpa supplicant (peer) that generates multiple separate sessions at the same time?
No. Just run 5-6 processes at the same time. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:29 PM, R C <rc_work@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
I ran eapol_test with reauthentication = 100. It went through fine. Thanks for that.
1. But, since these reauthentications are serial and not parallel,
and even if i run 5-6 eapol_test processes at the same time, there will be only 5-6 parallel sessions at any given time.
2. Since there are no free wpa supplicants that can generate multiple separate sessions at the same time, do you know of any paid tools (non-open source) that might generate about a 100,000 client requests? At this point, i still understand that the Free radius server cant handle those many requests even if there was a way to generate them.
JMeter can do some very clever things in distributed environments. JMeter + Beanshell + eapol_test may be the way to go.
I am just asking this question hoping some one would have had a similar requirement.
Thanks, RC. ------------------------------ *From:* Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> *To:* FreeRadius users mailing list <freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org
*Sent:* Tue, March 2, 2010 12:25:42 AM *Subject:* Re: Can a wpa_supplicant talk to a Free Radius server without a NAS in between?
rchinnapu wrote:
My requirement is to test scalability of my Server software that hosts Free Radius Server. I want to see how many wpa supplicant requests it can handle via EAP-TLS.
1. Can a wpa_supplicant talk to a Free Radius server without a NAS in between? I just want to see how many requests my Free Radius server can handle simultaneously. But, is it even possible for the WPA supplicant to talk to the Free radius server without the NAS in between them?
See eapol_test. It's included with wpa_supplicant.
http://deployingradius.com/ for complete instructions on building && using it with EAP.
2. Is there a free wpa supplicant (peer) that generates multiple separate sessions at the same time?
No. Just run 5-6 processes at the same time.
Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
- List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
R C wrote:
and even if i run 5-6 eapol_test processes at the same time, there will be only 5-6 parallel sessions at any given time.
So... run more processes on more machines.
2. Since there are no free wpa supplicants that can generate multiple separate sessions at the same time, do you know of any paid tools (non-open source) that might generate about a 100,000 client requests?
No. Generating 100K TLS requests will likely take dozens of CPUs, each running at maximum capacity, just to do all of the crypto overhead. So... run more processes on more machines.
I am just asking this question hoping some one would have had a similar requirement.
No. Because the requirement is rather extreme, a more than a little pointless. i.e. Q: What happens when I send my web server 100K HTTPS connections? A: it dies. Q: How do I generate 100K HTTPS connections from clients? A: post a link on slashot. Alan DeKok.
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