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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