[RADIATOR] Why the need for Radiator?

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Michael -

Yes Mike developed this out of the work he did on Diameter.

We realised that RADIUS needed a secure tunnel too.

best of the season

Hugh


> On 23 Dec 2019, at 19:14, <michael.filz at zv-extern.fraunhofer.de> <michael.filz at zv-extern.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> 
> 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?
>>> 
>>> ---
>>> Roberto Ullfig - rullfig at uic.edu
>>> Systems Administrator
>>> Enterprise Architecture and Development | ACCC
>>> University of Illinois - Chicago
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>> --
>> 
>> Hugh Irvine
>> hugh at open.com.au
>> 
>> Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server 
>> anywhere. SQL, proxy, DBM, files, LDAP, NIS+, password, NT, Emerald, 
>> Platypus, Freeside, TACACS+, PAM, external, Active Directory, EAP,
>> TLS, 
>> TTLS, PEAP, TNC, WiMAX, RSA, Vasco, Yubikey, MOTP, HOTP, TOTP,
>> DIAMETER, SIM, etc. 
>> Full source on Unix, Linux, Windows, macOS, Solaris, VMS, NetWare
>> etc.
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Hugh Irvine
hugh at open.com.au

Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server 
anywhere. SQL, proxy, DBM, files, LDAP, NIS+, password, NT, Emerald, 
Platypus, Freeside, TACACS+, PAM, external, Active Directory, EAP, TLS, 
TTLS, PEAP, TNC, WiMAX, RSA, Vasco, Yubikey, MOTP, HOTP, TOTP,
DIAMETER, SIM, etc. 
Full source on Unix, Linux, Windows, macOS, Solaris, VMS, NetWare etc.