Freeradius for WiMAX Authentication

Ivan Kalik tnt at kalik.net
Wed May 6 11:57:22 CEST 2009


> I was interested in knowing if we can use the Freeradius server for WiMAX
> Authentication. Some of the additional features that would be required
> are:
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> 1.	Vendor Specific Attributes inclusion in the Radius Messages(I think
> some amount of this can be done now - but can you tell me how)

It always could be done. You add them to the reply - just like any other
attribute. It will work as long as freeradius has those attributes in the
vendor dictionary.

> 2.	Generation of WiMAX Session keys

Read raddb/modules/wimax.

> 3.	Support for MSCHAPv2 inner authentication ??

Is there by default.

> 4.	Support for HA ??

Have a backup (secondary) radius server on standby. Any NAS should be able
to handle it.

Ivan Kalik
Kalik Informatika ISP




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