Off-topic: DHCP server with radius support

[Peter Nixon]

On Thu 21 Jun 2007, Kostas Kalevras wrote:
> O/H Eshun Benjamin έγραψε:
> > Slightly off-topic. Is anyone aware of a DHCP server with radius
> > support. Or even just with exec support? I 'd like to setup a DHPC that
> > will ask a radius server for IP instead of assigning it itself
> >
> > A radius server assigning IPs .......that is not radius (!) . May be
> > you mean the radius server authenticating (MACs and/or IPs) before the
> > dhcp assigns it; this you have to configure and write your own scripts
> > on the dhcp server to authenticate against the radius. Radius is for AAA
>
> No i meant exactly what i wrote. RADIUS can assign IP's (that's why we
> have the rlm_pool/rlm_sqlpool modules and the Framed-IP-Address
> attribute). I need to forward some information to home radius servers
> first and based on their response decide on the ip pool to give out
> IP's. Moreover, i need the extensibility and features of freeradius in
> my setup. I could provide you with the exact details of what i 'd like
> to achieve but they 're not important for the question asked.A DHCP
> request can be transformed to an Acesss-Request (with some default
> password), forwarded to a RADIUS server and the IP assigned by the
> radius server returned back to the user.

This is a logical integration, and something that I think would be very 
useful. :-)

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