Secure tunnel to freeradius

Rahul Godbole rahulmg1983 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 5 15:02:28 CEST 2013


Rather I need a secure channel between a 802.1x Network Access Device (
like an access point ) and freeradius.


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:59 PM, <A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >    We have a a supplicant that is our own box doing client 802.1x
> >    authentication using freeradius. We do not establish a TLS/IPSec
> >    connection between the supplicant and freeradius. We need to
> establish a
> >    secure channel between the supplicant and freeradius.
>
> NAS or supplicant?  a supplicant never talks to the RADIUS - its all done
> via the NAS.
>
> there are plenty of options to you - you already have thought about one
> method - use a VPN (DTLS/IPsec based...up to you) to tunnel the RADIUS
> though.
>
> or , if the NAS can do it, think about RADSEC - FreeRADIUS 3 supports
> RADSEC and its the way to go unless you want to forget RADIUS and use
> DIAMETER
> instead.
>
>
> alan
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