DCHP-Server only for WLAN-Clients?

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Sun Aug 8 14:41:37 CEST 2010


Marten Pape wrote:
> Now the wish with freeradius is:
> Access points can be used in the same subnet as the other lan-clients,
> but the clients that come in via WLAN should get an ip-address from
> "address-pool 2" (that is different to pool 1!).

  That can almost be done, except that FreeRADIUS doesn't (yet) have an
IP pool allocation system for DHCP.  There's an "sqlippool" module, but
it only works for RADIUS.

> The question is (because I didn't really understand the documentation)
> if the build-in (experimental) dhcp-server of freeradius is just for
> clients that come in via a freeradius-controlled route or if the
> dhcp-server answers for the whole subnet, regardless how the new client
> joined the network.

  The DHCP code works for *any* DHCP request, no matter where they came
from.

  Alan DeKok.



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