[RADIATOR] Why the need for Radiator?

[michael.filz at zv-extern.fraunhofer.de]

To be fair, for proxying Eduroam you are probably better off using
radsecproxy which is pretty much made for that. Although Radiator is
quite a bit easier to deal with than Cisco.

On Sat, 2019-12-21 at 17:39 +1100, Hugh Irvine wrote:
> Hello Roberto -
> 
> It depends on what else you are wanting/needing to do for
> authentication.
> 
> Most Universities are members of Eduroam, and for that you will have
> authentication requests for people from other institutions that you
> will need to proxy via Eduroam.
> 
> In general it is much easier to have Radiator deal with Eduroam users
> before you authenticate your local users.
> 
> YMMV of course.
> 
> regards
> 
> Hugh
> 
> 
> > On 21 Dec 2019, at 07:06, Ullfig, Roberto Alfredo <rullfig at uic.edu>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > I got into this project after it had all been designed. Why can't
> > the Cisco WISMs talk directly to Active Directory for
> > authentication? Why do we need Radiator in between?
> > 
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> > Systems Administrator
> > Enterprise Architecture and Development | ACCC
> > University of Illinois - Chicago
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> Hugh Irvine
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