FreeRADIUS hardware requirements A common question for people installing the server is “what are the hardware requirements for FreeRADIUS?” The answer is both simpler, and more complex than you would think. The performance of a RADIU... FreeRADIUS Technical Guides
RADIUS for Universities University environments present challenges for RADIUS system design. Every hour, on the hour, thousands of students close their laptops, move to a different location, and open them again. This unique ... Education
Designing your network for fail-over An essential part of good network design is to plan for failures. In a RADIUS ecosystem, one major requirement is that clients can always connect to a RADIUS server, and that the system can continue t... Network Architecture
How to connect FreeRADIUS to Active Directory for authentication Active Directory is widely used in the enterprise and university systems. This article describes how to connect FreeRADIUS with Active Directory, allowing you toauthenticate users against your existin... Enterprises FreeRADIUS Technical Guides
The problem with RADIUS in the cloud The promise of cloud-hosted infrastructure sounds tempting. Someone else manages yourdatabase, you pay only for what you need, you may have better data security, and the database can scale up with you... Network Architecture
IETF Bangkok 122 recap: What we're doing to advance RADIUS standards I've recently returned from IETF Bangkok, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 122 meeting, where I spent a week working with implementers, operators, and standards authors who are defining the ... IETF and RADIUS Standards
Database design principles for RADIUS systems Database design is often overlooked as a critical element of a RADIUS ecosystem. In practice, when we work with our clients, we usually spend the bulk of our time optimizing the database architecture.... Internet Service Providers Network Architecture
Using FreeRADIUS with FIPS mode on compliant systems In order to create more secure systems, standards such as Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 ( FIPS-140) are being more widely used. The FIPS standard provides for limits on which cryptogra... Enterprises FreeRADIUS Technical Guides
How to set up a wireless RADIUS server for secure Wi-Fi authentication When setting up a Wi-Fi network at home, you typically set up an SSID and password, accept the defaults for any other options, and be done with it. (In some cases, these are done for you by your servi... Enterprises FreeRADIUS Technical Guides
DHCP enhancements in FreeRADIUS 3 for high performance As part of our contributions to the FreeRADIUS community, InkBridge Networkstook on the task of overhauling its DHCP support. The result is the same highly flexible and configurable DHCP server, but n... FreeRADIUS Technical Guides Internet Service Providers
Does FreeRADIUS include a DHCP server? We are happy to announce that FreeRADIUS 3 is now fully compliant with the base DHCP standards . Previous versions supported the base DORA exchange, but lacked some features such as handling Decline p... FreeRADIUS Technical Guides Internet Service Providers
Announcing SRADIUS RADIUS has used MD5 for security for almost thirty years. It is time to use a modern alternative: SRADIUS! We just released an Internet-Draft which defines “Secure RADIUS”, or “SRADIUS”. We also have ... IETF and RADIUS Standards