Does Avenda use freeradius?

paul smith paulsmth37 at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 7 00:39:32 CEST 2008


Thanks Alan,
It does seem to be freeradius underneath on closer inspection.

An interesting question comes from this, if they have added additional
modules are they required by the freeradius license to opensource the code
for these modules as they are compiled with the server?

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>wrote:

> paul smith wrote:
> > Its a RADIUS appliance with a nice GUI, but I think FreeRADIUS offers
> > all the features that it does.
>
>   Pretty much, yes.  It has other features (captive portal, etc.), but
> those may not be critical in your site.
>
> > Does anyone have any experience of it? Or a comparison between it and
> > FreeRADIUS?
> >
> > Also I think it may be FreeRADIUS underneath, does anyone know if that
> > is the case?
>
>   Maybe.  A number of these appliance vendors think they have value-add
> writing their own RADIUS server.  I have no idea why...
>
>  If you can get an evaluation box, do PEAP authentication, and look at
> the packet traces.  It's pretty easy to tell FreeRADIUS from the other
> RADIUS servers. :)
>
>  Alan DeKok.
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