- FreeRADIUS
Infobox_Software
name = FreeRADIUS
caption =
developer = FreeRADIUS Development Team
latest_release_version = 2.1.0
latest_release_date =September 5 ,2008
operating_system =Unix-like
genre =Radius server
license =GPLv2
website = [http://www.freeradius.org/ www.freeradius.org]FreeRADIUS is a free
open source RADIUS server.FreeRADIUS claims in their documentation to be the most popular RADIUS server, in terms of deployments and number of users who are authenticated with it daily.
FreeRADIUS is scalable from embedded systems to systems with millions of users. It supports many common authentication protocols. The server comes with a
PHP based web user administration tool, called [http://www.freeradius.org/dialupadmin.html dialupadmin] .and is currently used as the foundation for multiple commercial RADIUS products.History
FreeRADIUS was started in August 1999 by
Alan DeKok andMiquel van Smoorenburg . Miquel had previously written the Cistron RADIUS server, which had gained wide-spread usage once the Livingston server was no longer being maintained. FreeRADIUS was started to create a new RADIUS server, using a design that would encourage more active community involvement, and scale to deployments that earlier servers did not handle.The server has gained community support,and has modules to integrate it with LDAP, SQL, and other databases. EAP support was added in late 2001, with PEAP and
EAP-TTLS support were added in late 2003. The server now supports all common authentication protocols, databases, and vendor dictionaries.Version 2.0.0 was released in early 2008, and added experimental support for many more EAP types (EAP-FAST, EAP-TNC, etc.). It also added support for
Virtual hosting , IPv6, VMPS, and a new policy language that simplifies many complex configurations.ee also
*
RADIUS
*VLAN Management Policy Server
*AAA Protocol
*Diameter protocol: the proposed replacement for RADIUSExternal links
* [http://www.freeradius.org Official WWW-Site]
* [http://wiki.freeradius.org FreeRADIUS wiki]
* [http://www.freeradius.net FreeRADIUS.net - A Win32 Version]
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