Authenticate Many Sites on dynamic IPs through One Freeradius Server

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Wed Nov 18 14:07:05 CET 2009


Charles (KOL) Goma wrote:
> I have test-configured freeradius to work on my hotspot. It works fine
> and I am happy.
>  
> I am planning to have about 17 of my sites authenticate through one
> freeradius server. These 17 HOTSPOTS are in different parts of the
> country and have dynamic IPs.
>  
> 1. How do I configure that in clients.conf?

  You don't.  RADIUS requires an IP address for authentication.

  You can probably work around this by setting up a VPN in between the
hotspots and your data center.

> 2. Bandwidth charges are different in most of the 17 sites. How can i
> set these billing difference in my setup.

  You don't.  FreeRADIUS doesn't do billing.  It just records accounting
data.

  Alan DeKok.



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