Can a wpa_supplicant talk to a Free Radius server without a NAS in between?

[Alan DeKok]

rchinnapu wrote:
> My requirement is to test scalability of my Server software that hosts
> Free Radius Server. I want to see how many wpa supplicant requests it
> can handle via EAP-TLS.
> 
> 1. Can a wpa_supplicant talk to a Free Radius server without a NAS in
> between? I just want to see how many requests my Free Radius server can
> handle simultaneously. But, is it even possible for the WPA supplicant
> to talk to the Free radius server without the NAS in between them?

  See eapol_test.  It's included with wpa_supplicant.

  http://deployingradius.com/ for complete instructions on building &&
using it with EAP.

> 2. Is there a free wpa supplicant (peer) that generates multiple
> separate sessions at the same time?

  No.  Just run 5-6 processes at the same time.

  Alan DeKok.