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

[R C]

Sorry about the multiple questions.

But, I really didnt get what tool to use for the following question  :(

4. Are they good for scalability testing or should I look out for other open source wpa supplicants/NASs?

I will be grateful if you can answer this again for me please. Thanks again for reading my message.

Also, in question #2,  what processes are you referring to? please shed some light on this. sorry again.

2. When you say "Just run 5-6 processes at the same time.", can one interface be used to send out multiple simultaneous wpa supplicant requests? If yes, how many wpa client sessions can i generate on 1 interface?

Regards,
RC.




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From: Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>
To: FreeRadius users mailing list <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
Sent: Tue, March 2, 2010 5:03:20 PM
Subject: Re: Can a wpa_supplicant talk to a Free Radius server without a NAS in between?

R C wrote:
> Here is my requirement in more detail:

  It was pretty clear what you wanted to do.

> 1. Considering the limitation of the resources, I was thinking about how
> i can get so many (100,000) wpa supplicant sessions up and running at
> the same time. Do you have any input on this?

  Doing 100K simultaneous sessions is pointless.  Your CPU will max out
LONG before that.  Read raddb/certs/README, the "performance" section.

> 2. When you say "Just run 5-6 processes at the same time.", can one
> interface be used to send out multiple simultaneous wpa supplicant
> requests? If yes, how many wpa client sessions can i generate on 1
> interface?

  Go back and read my message again.  I didn't say run "wpa supplicant"
requests.

> 3. Can you please tell me how good WPA supplicant and Hostapd fit this
> test with FreeRadius Server?

  I have no idea what that means.

> 4. Are they good for scalability testing or should I look out for other
> open source wpa supplicants/NASs?

  I already told you which tool to use.  Why ask again?

> 5. Do you know of any other supplicants and AP that might do the work
> for me or are known to do a better job in scalability tests like this?

  Asking the same question twice in a row.  Why?

  Alan DeKok.
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