a freeradious/wireless solution for a school

[Tas Dionisakos]

Im in a similar environment, after months of research I have come to the 
following solution.

    * Apache
    * Freeradius
    * Chillispot
    * Mysql

I have a howto that will help you built a system like this in about half 
an hour, email me if you want the doc.

Chillispot provides a captive portal which makes a user authenticate 
(over ssl), then you have the power to apply restrictions like bandwidth 
throttling, session time limit, etc.

The only maintenance is creating the account.

Tas.



Peter Nixon wrote:
> http://wiki.freeradius.org/EAP
>
> -Peter
>
> On Tue 23 Jan 2007 00:06, German Kalinec wrote:
>   
>> Therein lies the problem.  My potential users are a lot of my students.
>> The idea of having to install certificates in 200+ laptops is not really
>> feasible.  And showing them how to install is an exercise in futility,
>> since most of our students are not computer savvy enough to do it.
>>
>> German Kalinec
>> Systems Manager
>> New Roads School
>> 3131 Olympic Blvd.
>> Santa Monica, CA 90404
>> (310) 828-5582
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
>> freeradius-users-bounces+gkalinec=newroads.org at lists.freeradius.org
>> [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+gkalinec=newroads.org at lists.freeradius.
>> org] On Behalf Of Nazeer Khan
>> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 1:44 PM
>> To: FreeRadius users mailing list
>> Cc: freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org
>> Subject: Re: a freeradious/wireless solution for a school
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Use EAP-TLS, the most secure one. It will automatically give encryption
>> key to the clients. U have to do onething, install the client
>> certificates
>> in the beginning in each client machine that will use your wireless and
>> thats it.
>>
>> There are other options like EAP-PEAP, LEAP etc
>>
>> Check out for the types of EAP and you will find out.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> tml
>>
>>
>>
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