IP delivery for MAC records

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Mon Jan 25 14:08:40 CET 2010


Sylvain De Muynck wrote:
> Before, I was using freeradius with a DHCP server running in order to
> attribute IPs addresses to my customers (I work for an ISP)
> 
> This configuration is perfectly working however for security,
> maintenance and monitoring, I took the choice of delivering IP addresses
> through my radius server.

  Are you sure that will work?

  You can do IP assignment via RADIUS only when the computer is
connecting via PPP.  (e.e. PPPoE).  If it connects via ethernet or
wireless, you *must* use DHCP.

  Alan DeKok.



More information about the Freeradius-Users mailing list