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

[Peter Lambrechtsen]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:29 PM, R C <rc_work at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I ran eapol_test with reauthentication = 100. It went through fine. Thanks
> for that.
>
> 1. But, since these reauthentications are serial and not parallel,
>
> and even if i run 5-6 eapol_test processes at the same time, there will be
> only 5-6 parallel sessions at any given time.
>
> 2. Since there are no free wpa supplicants that can generate multiple
> separate sessions at the same time, do you know of any paid tools (non-open
> source) that might generate about a 100,000 client requests? At this point,
> i still understand that the Free radius server cant handle those many
> requests even if there was a way to generate them.
>

JMeter can do some very clever things in distributed environments.

JMeter + Beanshell + eapol_test may be the way to go.


>
> I am just asking this question hoping some one would have had a similar
> requirement.
>
> Thanks,
> RC.
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>
> *To:* FreeRadius users mailing list <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org
> >
> *Sent:* Tue, March 2, 2010 12:25:42 AM
> *Subject:* Re: Can a wpa_supplicant talk to a Free Radius server without a
> NAS in between?
>
> 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.
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