IP address assignment for the authenticated users in Free radius

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Tue Oct 20 08:45:14 CEST 2009


Anoop C wrote:
> Hi
>     We are running EAP-TLS authentication for office users using WiFi
> network. This is a certificate based authentication and we are using Free
> RADIUS.
>     I would like to know whether we can assign IP address dynamically to the
> users through FREE RADIUS server ie RADIUS server works as DHCP server.

  For WiFi authentication, you need a DHCP server.  Sending IP addresses
to the NAS in a RADIUS packet won't work.

> So
> after successful authentication Server should through an IP address which is
> configured against that  particular MAC of the user in the server.

  No.  You need a DHCP server.

  You can configure FreeRADIUS to be a DHCP server, but that involves
creating a DHCP configuration, not a RADIUS configuration.

  Alan DeKok.



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