FreeRADIUS v1.1.5
Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2005 @ 21:55:49 AST
Topic: distro
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FreeRADIUS is the premiere open source RADIUS
server. While detailed statistics are not available, we believe that
FreeRADIUS is well within the top 5 RADIUS servers
world-wide, in terms of the number of people who use it daily for
authentication. It scales from embedded systems with small amounts of memory, to
systems with millions of users. It is fast, flexible, configurable, and supports
more authentication protocols than many commercial servers.
The server is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), which means
that it is free to download and install.
The
FreeRADIUS Server Project
The FreeRADIUS Server Project
encompasses more than just a RADIUS server. The related software includes a PAM
authentication module, and an Apache 1.3 and 2.0 authentication module. The
server comes with a PHP-based web user administration tool, called dialupadmin.
The RADIUS server has more features and is more flexible than any other free
software RADIUS server, and many commercial servers. Most commercial servers are
distributed as a "base" system ($), and an "enhanced" version ($$) with more
features. FreeRADIUS has all the features of a commercial "enhanced" server,
without the associated cost.
In it simplest form, the server is similar to Livingston's 2.0 server. Many
configuration files are similar, and the general operation of the server should
be familiar to anyone who has used a variant of the Livingston server.
FreeRADIUS can be extended significantly from this simple form, however. There
are many modules and configuration files which have no equivalent in older
RADIUS servers. These new features permit FreeRADIUS to work within complex
systems, and environments which require high performance.
To support the demanding requirements of a modern RADIUS server, FreeRADIUS
features more than 50 vendor-specific dictionary files. It ships with support
for LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle databases. It supports EAP, with EAP-MD5,
EAP-SIM, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, EAP-PEAP, and Cisco LEAP sub-types. It supports
proxying, with fail-over and load balancing. It has reached a stable 1.0
release, with incremental improvements being added and tested daily. In short,
it is a powerful, fast, and complex RADIUS server which is compatible with the
latest network protocols and practices, and is well suited for deployment in any
size network.
About FreeRADIUS
FreeRADIUS is one of the most modular and feature-rich RADIUS servers available
today. It has been written by a team of developers who have decades of
collective experience in implementing and deploying RADIUS software, in software
engineering, and in Unix package management. The product is the result of
synergy between many of the best-known names in free software-based RADIUS
implementations, including several developers of the Debian GNU/Linux operating
system, and is distributed under the GNU GPL (version 2).
The FreeRADIUS server is being used all over the world in large scale
installations comprising multiple radius servers with thouands of users and
millions of sessions.
Homepage and more info here:
http://www.freeradius.org
Download it from here:
ftp://ftp.freeradius.org/pub/radius/freeradius-1.1.5.tar.gz
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Re: FreeRADIUS v1.1.5 (Score: 1)
by meshal on Friday, March 23, 2007 @ 21:34:29 AST
(User Info ) | 2006.03.05 Version
1.1.5
has been released. The focus of this release is stability.
Feature Improvements
- Added more dictionaries
- Dictionary files now MUST NOT be globally writable.
- Configuration files now MUST NOT be globally writable.
- Be more aggressive about freeing memory on clean exit.
- Updated rlm_python.
- Added another experimental SQL IP Pool module
Bug Fixes
- Corrected base64 decoding in rlm_pap
- Don't retransmit accounting packets. The NAS should do this.
- Handle Client-Error in EAP-SIM. (Closes #419)
- Port OpenSSL locking fixes from CVS head. This makes PEAP more stable on
some systems.
- Require Message-Authenticator in Status-Server packets.
- Correct Tunnel-Medium-Type VALUEs in dictionary.rfc2868.
- Increase buffer size for dynamic expansion, which allows longer SQL
queries. (Closes #405)
- Use correct line number when there's a parse error in one of the
configuration sections. (Closes #421)
- Terminate SSL sessions in EAP on error, rather than continuing in some
cases.
- Increase buffer size to allow parsing of long octet strings,
- Fix string termination on xlat in rlm_perl.
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