dhcp+radius

[Sven 'Darkman' Michels]

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Hi,

if you don't mind i answer ;)

Kevin Zhang wrote:
> Hi Ivan,
> 
> Thanks again for the reply. Actually my scenario is like this:
> I have a box needs to be installed via PXE. The box will send out its mac
> address to get the ip of tftp server and the location of pxelinux.0.
> Without Radius, the box will talk to DHCP server directly for all
> The information it needs. If I want to implement the authentication
> Using RADIUS so net boot will continue only after the 
> authentication succeed. I just want to know where RADIUS fit into 
> this model step by step.

IMHO nope. pxeboot occours at the beginning when nothing is running on
the box. So all you have at this time is your pxeloader, no
"supplicant". You need a kind of "isolated" lan where you can install
via. pxe (and maybe nothing else) and after your client is installed
(make sure that you have a supplicant/radiusclient installed on it) you
can use your radius to get into another vlan.

Regards,
Sven
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