Authenticating Windows Variants (2003, XP and 2000) clients and linux boxes using freeradius

[Ivan Kalik]

> * Is it possible to authenticate Windows Variants (2003,XP and 2000)
> clients
> without using Windows 2003 AD?

You can set up Windows servers as stand-alone radius clients. You can't do
that for XP. You can use Samba instead of AD.

> * And how much I can scale (my requirement might go upto 250 boxes in
> future) ?

There are freeradius implementations with millions of users. One active
and one backup server should be quite enough.

Ivan Kalik
Kalik Informatika ISP